{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Why G.K. Chesterton Defended the French Revolution\u2014and Why His Critics Still Misread Him","description":"Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski take up the most neuralgic subject in G.K. Chesterton scholarship: his defense of the French Revolution. Working through a 1921 Illustrated London News column, a 1905 Daily News essay setting the French and Russian revolutions side by side, and a 1918 New Witness piece that turns without warning to Prussianism, they trace his distinction between the ideals of a revolution and its working out, and his insistence that what a revolution exists to restore is the rights of man and not the wrongs of man.&amp;nbsp; In This Episode:  Why G.K. Chesterton distinguished the motivations behind the French Revolution from its working out under Robespierre and the Terror The negative equality G.K. Chesterton faulted the revolutionaries for\u2014abolishing things for everybody instead of extending them to everybody Why reading G.K. Chesterton on this subject without his British and monarchical audience in view produces anachronism, and what he held against Edmund Burke G.K. Chesterton on positive and negative liberalism, and his warning that the modern revolutionist is free to hate anything, liberty itself included The white post from Orthodoxy, radicalism as a return to the roots, and G.K. Chesterton's claim that revolution is the divine part of man  Resources Mentioned:    The Rightness of the French Revolution by G.K. Chesterton  Two Revolutions by G.K. Chesterton  The Two Feasts of Freedom  The Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton (100th anniversary edition)  The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton  Chapters:   00:00: Introduction  00:30: Welcome\u2014Revolutions, Independence Day, and Bastille Day  03:55: &quot;The Rightness of the French Revolution&quot; (1921)  05:26: Negative Equality and the Rationalist Epoch  07:40: G.K. Chesterton's Audience and the Danger of Anachronism  10:01: Politically Homeless\u2014Belloc, the Vend\u00e9e, and Edmund Burke  13:12: Knowing What You Are Talking About  17:11: &quot;Two Revolutions&quot; (1905) and the Songs of the Revolution  23:46: The White Post and the Job of the Conservative  26:27: &quot;The Two Feasts of Freedom&quot; (1918) and the Prussian Paralysis  28:00: Revolution as the Divine Part of Man  35:38: Watt Tyler and Painting the Fence Post  FOLLOW US   Instagram  Facebook  X  SUPPORT   Consider making a donation  Visit our Shop  Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios ","author_name":"Uncommon Sense","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/23918\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42385195\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/204975235"}