Although readers of the National Catholic Register will presumably need no introduction to Hilaire Belloc, who was born 150 years ago, it will be well to at least remind ourselves of why Belloc is ...

This article is an edited excerpt from Alexander William Salter's forthcoming book, The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good (Catholic University of America Press, ...

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) is not as well-known as he and his talent deserve. From the last years of the reign of Queen Victoria until the first years of World War II, when ill health silenced his ...

In a new piece in Newsweek, economist Alexander Salter demonstrates once again that he should stick to his research specialty, which is monetary theory and policy. This piece is one in a series of ...

Who share Hilaire’s adopted tongue. Well, that’s put Dear Hilaire back in his box, hasn’t it? If Belloc’s entire literary merit lies in his having catered to the A.A. Milne and Edward Lear demographic ...

One can never predict which British visitors will master American reportage and which will not. Harold Laski’s written English usually resembled the efforts of a blind, one-armed commissar trying to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hilaire Belloc’s cautionary tales From Mr James W Wood. Sir, Michael Ignatieff’s typically cogent analysis of ...