Peggy Orenstein, the author of Girls & Sex, a fascinating analysis of the post-Sexual Revolution landscape, is now releasing a new book, Boys & Sex. Based on long-form interviews with over 100 boys between the ages of 16 and 22 either in college or heading there, Orenstein’s revelations are an interesting glimpse into today’s bewildered,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Even for Canada’s media, which was universally and enthusiastically in favor of the legalization of assisted suicide in the leadup to legalization, the Ottawa Citizen’s recent spin on a tragic and awful trend is jaw-dropping. Increasingly, those opting for assisted suicide are also volunteering to have their organs recycled (18 organ and 95…
By Jonathon Van Maren Between her apparently dazzling appearance at the Golden Globes and the Oscar buzz surrounding her film Bombshell, which deals with the culture of sexual harassment at FOX News, Charlize Theron appears to be having something of a moment. That, and her decision to raise her son Jackson as a girl after he…
By Jonathon Van Maren Some of you may remember that back in 2015, the renowned German playwright Falk Richter premiered a play titled FEAR in Berlin. The play featured five pro-family women, including my friend Gabriele Kuby, who reject gender ideology, portraying them as Nazi zombies. During the course of the play, the zombies were attacked by actors…
I’ve been wondering for some time what the great Princeton professor Robert P. George thinks of the evangelical war over Trump triggered by the Christianity Today op-ed calling for his removal. George is one of the most intelligent, principled, and level-headed minds in America, and he’s written many books on religious liberty, freedom of conscience,…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few stories on the latest culture war happenings. Like me, I’m sure you didn’t miss keeping up with this stuff over the Christmas holidays. *** The scandals emanating from so-called transgender clinics are proceeding apace, with consistent resignation from staff highlighting the experimental nature of what is being done to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back on December 19, I wrote a column in this space on J.K. Rowling’s decision to tweet out her support of Maya Forstater, a 45-year-old tax expert who was recently fired for expressing her view that women could not become men and men could not become women simply by saying so. An employment…
By Jonathon Van Maren As the autopsies of the decade roll out, it is hard not to marvel at how much has changed in ten short years. The panic over climate change has reached a crescendo that makes Al Gore look relaxed. The Arab Spring took down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Once again, my work has taken me on the road every month in the past year for speaking engagements on abortion, pro-life strategy and apologetics, and other largely depressing subjects. I’ll admit that by year’s end, I’m more than ready to stay home and read books for a couple of weeks.…