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'''Gilbert Keith Chesterton''' (1874–1936) was a [[British]] [[writer]] and leading [[conservative]] intellectual.

'''Gilbert Keith Chesterton''' (1874–1936) was a [[British]] [[writer]] and leading [[conservative]] intellectual, who never graduated from college but became an immensely popular and humorous writer.

He is known for his fictional works such as the ''Father Brown'' stories, as well as for his non-fiction writings offering an intellectual defense of the [[Christian]] faith.  Along with his friend [[Hilaire Belloc]] he is best known as an exponent of  a British variety of conservatism known as [[distributism]], which opposed both [[socialism]] and large-scale [[capitalism]], and supported a decentralized economy of small property owners and small-scale [[entrepreneur]]s. He was a leader in the fight against socialism.

He is known for his fictional works such as the ''Father Brown'' stories, as well as for his non-fiction writings offering an intellectual defense of the [[Christian]] faith.  Along with his friend [[Hilaire Belloc]] he is best known as an exponent of  a British variety of conservatism known as [[distributism]], which opposed both [[socialism]] and large-scale [[capitalism]], and supported a decentralized economy of small property owners and small-scale [[entrepreneur]]s. He was a leader in the fight against socialism.