By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone mildly interested in traditionalism—be it beautiful old architecture, the preservation of fading cultures, magnificent literature, or simply an instinctive aversion to the ugliness of modernity—has probably heard of the “Wrath of Gnon,” a mysterious Twitter user who seems to spend a lot of time unleashing beauty onto social media. He—I…
By Jonathon Van Maren As always, Rex Murphy’s comments are pure gold—and he has now weighed in on the revelations that Justin Trudeau’s government is funding anti-pipeline activists (claiming that they will not withhold funding from an organization just because they disagree with its advocacy) while denying funding to groups that refuse to sign off…
By Jonathon Van Maren Most Canadians do not follow European politics very closely, and so nobody thought much of it when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted out his congratulations to Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who had just secured a third consecutive mandate and a two-thirds majority for his Fidesz party. Canada’s left-leaning…
By Jonathon Van Maren After Democratic Senator Cory Booker relentlessly grilled then-candidate for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his views of gay marriage, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro mockingly imagined future questions that could be leveled at supporters of traditional marriage: “To verify your tolerance, I now ask that you publicly watch ‘Brokeback Mountain’ without…
This is the third essay in my series on the history of Christianity in Russia. The first was the Bloody Baptism of Russia, covering the legendary arrival of the Apostle Andrew to the Mongol Invasion. The second covered the Mongol Yoke to the Bolshevik barbarians. This essay examines the Great Soviet Persecutions from the Revolution…
By Jonathon Van Maren April 30, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As most of you will already know, Alfie Evans passed away in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital during the early morning hours of April 28, ending a bitter battle between his parents, Alfie’s doctors, the British court system over who had the right to determine the little…
By Jonathon Van Maren As I wrote last week, the Conservatives are having a field day in the House of Commons after discovering that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are funding an organization that exists almost solely to stop a project the Liberals have been promising loudly will definitely get built—the Kinder Morgan pipeline. In fact, the…
By Jonathon Van Maren If comedian Michelle Wolf’s goal at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner on Saturday night was to give Donald Trump a justification for not showing up at the dinner for a second year in a row, she did a magnificent job of that with a performance so cringeworthy (it started with descriptions…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Alder Hey Children’s Hospital—which has been keeping Alfie Evans in their custody against the wishes of his parents (I wrote up a timeline of the ongoing saga here)—is apparently no stranger to controversy. In 2005, in fact, The Guardian reported that “Alder Hey pathologist ‘stockpiled children’s organs.’” Here are the…
Richard Horatio Blair, the son of the British writer Eric Arthur Blair–better known by his pen-name George Orwell–joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about his memories of his famous father and why Orwell’s writing is still so relevant today.