It is easy to get depressed about the state of the culture–but 2018 has brought a lot of really great news, as well. Jonathon Van Maren reviews some of the most significant culture war victories of the past six months, from South America to Australia to the United States.
And here is the full interview, for those who are interested:
Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin appear to be pretty good friends, and they’ve sparred over the abortion topic a few times. Each time it comes up, Rubin is increasingly uncomfortable with his position–and increasingly unwilling to defend it. If these discussion continue, I’m going to bet that Shapiro will bring Rubin around on the abortion…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Since thousands of pro-lifers wielding blue kerchiefs recently showed up on the streets of Argentina to protest plans to legalize abortion, a “Light Blue Wave” has been spreading across South America and Latin America. Over 20,000 marched in Guatemala City earlier this month, forcing the government to drop…
By Jonathon Van Maren The just-released Netflix documentary Reversing Roe begins with flashing images set to gripping voice-overs from both sides of the abortion debate: A pro-lifer describing how “the baby is ripped limb from limb while the heart is still beating”–and the tearful voice of a woman pleading with legislators to leave the difficult…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Left has a way of creating free speech warriors unintentionally, and Lindsay Shepherd, a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, is no exception. In November of 2017, she showed her communications class several clips of a debate between Dr. Jordan Peterson and several others on the issue of compelled speech…
By Jonathon Van Maren One thing that I find hard to get used to is the utter solemnity with which the media treats the most absurd claims. Headlines announce that some man is pregnant, when the pregnant person is quite obviously a woman. News stories tell us that a woman has raped several other women…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 2 of my 2016 book The Culture War, I examined the pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases that is currently sweeping North America—albeit unnoticed and unremarked on by most: The STD epidemic makes headlines occasionally, but not often—and certainly not in proportion to the prevalence of these diseases or the…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is one mark of our crazy times that whenever somebody points to a logical outcome of one of our more radical ideologies—say, the idea of biological men being sent to female prisons because they claim to be women—they are angrily ridiculed and often accused of being transphobic. Two things are…
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been 67 years since the publication of William F. Buckley’s famous conservative breakout bestseller, God and Man at Yale—and only six years since Nathan Harden’s 21st century update God and Sex at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad. But the latest news out of Yale…