Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc by Joseph Pearce (Ignatius, $24.95) When people today think of Hilaire Belloc, if they think about him at all, they are likely to think of him within one of three, usually not overlapping, categories. The politicos remember him as the author of The Servile State, a prescient warning about the coming of the socialist (and corporatist) welfare state. The literati are apt to think of him as the author of satirical verse — such as The Bad Child's Book of Beasts — or of books like The Path to Rome. And to the … Continue reading When Poets Tilted Right