By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve only been to Italy once, but it was hard not to notice: There were very few children around. A few of my friends went there on vacation more recently, and they not only observed the same thing, but were at several points swarmed by people who wanted to coo at…
By Jonathon Van Maren As it turns out, the Alberta New Democratic Party of Premier Rachel Notley and her thuggish Education Minister David Eggen is not only guilty of bullying private religious schools—their intolerance for anyone who might want to speak or think for themselves extends even to those in their own party. According to…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’m not quite as optimistic as many people seem to be about the midterm elections today, although I may be as wrong as I was about Donald Trump’s ability to get elected president. The nonstop and frenzied political carousel that America seems to be trapped on is sometimes exhausting to the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching, and public education,” there is perhaps no academic so articulate and so fierce in his defence of Western civilization as Sir Roger Scruton. A graduate of Cambridge, anti-Communist Cold Warrior, professor in the Humanities Research Institute at Buckingham University, and author of over…