“Nietzsche’s Superman is cold and friendless,” Chesterton wrote in Heretics. “And when Nietzsche says, ‘A New commandment I give to you, be hard,’ he is really saying, ‘A new commandment I give to you, be dead.’ Sensibility is the definition of life.” Chesterton’s words, written more than ten years before the Bolshevik Revolution and almost thirty years before Hitler’s rise to power, resonate with authenticated prophecy. Those literary figures who have expressed a specific and profound debt to Chesterton