In President Sanford's 2023 Faculty Day Address, he wrote, "What's Wrong with the World?"

1910 saw the publication of G.K. Chesterton’s book "What’s Wrong with the World?" Leave it to Chesterton to argue for social revolution and the redistribution of wealth in defense of a young girl’s hair—you’ll have to read the book to see how that gets worked out. What I find of particular interest for my purpose today is a story involving The Times, Chesterton, and what would become the title of that book. Perhaps you know it already.

Near the dawn of the 20th Century, an editor of The Times, hoping to curate a series of articles, circulated a request to notable authors asking them to respond to the question: What’s wrong with the world?