I have always thought that every academic--or wannabe, such as myself--ought have one or two hypotheses that are held very loosely, are somewhat defensible but impossible to prove, and just fringe enough to make academic parties mildly interesting.
One such hypothesis that I have occasionally advanced is that G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy is the most important work of the 21st century, even though it was written in the 20th....
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