How to Foil a Fascist

By Catherine Gay

October 1, 2014

Catherine Gay on G.K. Chesterton reaching across the decades to rescue a young man from political immolation

Whereas one may reasonably expect an exegetical and spiritual journey from the American Scott Hahn, a former evangelical pastor, from one such as Pearce, a political activist, pride of place may be conceded to the intellectual and political over the spiritual and mystical How is it that Joseph Pearce, founder of the now-defunct fascist magazine Bulldog and a former member of Britain's National Front, a far-right political party with links to neo- Nazi cells, should be known today as the Catholic biographer of Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn and Oscar Wilde, and more generally, as a leading figure of the Anglo-American Catholic intelligentsia?

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