What is civilization built upon — fear or wonder? Security or freedom? The State or the soul?
In this special Chesterton Radio philosophical debate, Thomas Hobbes — author of Leviathan — faces G.K. Chesterton in a dramatic clash over human nature, authority, religion, liberty, and the modern State.
Was Hobbes right that civilization survives only through powerful centralized authority? Or was Chesterton right that societies collapse when they forget faith, family, local loyalties, and the dignity of ordinary people?
From civil war and social contracts to AI governance, technocracy, surveillance culture, loneliness, and the crisis of meaning in the modern world, this episode explores one of the most important questions of modern civilization:
Can peace alone keep a society alive?
Broadcast in the spirit of Chesterton Radio from Atchison, Kansas — where classic ideas still matter.
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