Utopia of Usurers

In 'Utopia of Usurers,' G. K. Chesterton employs his characteristic wit and moral clarity to delve into the malaise of early 20th-century capitalism and the corrosive effects of greed on the human spirit. The essays, accordingly bifurcated, first probe the ethical foundations—or the absence thereof—underpinning capitalist ideology, laying bare the inherent contradictions and individualism that Che...