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…
By Jonathon Van Maren For over a decade, millions of people in our pornified Western culture have been pumping millions of hours of sadistic sexually violent scenes into their skulls, all the while claiming in defiance of all the evidence that this exploding social lust for abuse and degradation has no real-world consequences once the…
This is Part II of my two-part series on literary locations across Canada. Part I can be found here. L.M. Montgomery’s Home in Leaksdale, Ontario My wife is an obsessive fan of Anne of Green Gables, the melodramatic and mischievous redhead from the Maritimes that has successfully captured the hearts of millions. Several years ago,…
By Jonathon Van Maren As a longtime lover of literature, one of the things I most enjoy doing is visiting historical sites associated with great writers and their works. Over the past several years, I have realized that there are quite a few of these places in Canada—often out of the way, nearly always unpublicized,…
By Jonathon Van Maren It seems like it was just yesterday that Dr. Jordan B. Peterson was being raucously mocked for stating that “compelled speech” in the form of requiring the use of recently-invented transgender pronouns was the first step towards totalitarianism. At the time, smug limousine lefties found his “hysteria” to be hilarious. Since…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It is hard to believe that it was already seventeen years ago that our world changed forever, when airplanes turned into flying bombs by fundamentalist fanatics cleaved history in two with their fiery explosions of mass murder. When the morning of September 12, 2001 dawned with…
By Jonathon Van Maren The pushback against legalized abortion in South America continues, this time in Chile. On Saturday, September 8, thousands of Chilean pro-lifers rallied outside the National Palace, sporting and waving the blue that has become a symbol of the pro-life movement across the continent. In July of 2017, the Senate of Chile…