By Jonathon Van Maren In the United Kingdom, it has been a relentless stream of bad news for those who value freedom of speech for several years now. A 38-year-old mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up in a cell at the police station in Hertfordshire. A docker in Northern England…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia carries far graver consequences than most of the voting public realizes. While these policies are sold as merciful responses to those suffering horribly from terminal illnesses, the reality is a society in which the state creates two classes of people: Those eligible for assisted suicide, and…
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By Jonathon Van Maren When George Frideric Handel’s Israel in Egypt premiered at the King’s Theatre in Haymarket on April 4, 1739, the audience disliked it. They disliked it so much, in fact, that when Handel put his new oratorio—the first of two he would write that consisted entirely of verses from Scripture—into the opera…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It has now begun: The government has been taking children who wish to “change” their gender away from their parents if their families disagree that “gender transition” is the right thing for their sons or (much more often – 71 percent of the time) daughters. According to the Daily Mail, at least three…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The global experiment of ubiquitous digital pornography is growing so quickly that it is nearly impossible to exaggerate the scale of what is taking place. In 2016, the smut giant PornHub estimated that so many people were using its websites around the world that about a dozen porn videos were viewed…
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By Jonathon Van Maren The organization One of Us, a federation of forty member organizations from 19 nations within the European Union, gathered in Paris last month to launch their Cultural Platform under the high patronage of Professor Rémi Brague of the Institut de France. The conference, which was held on February 23 in Paris…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Last August, following the stunning upset victory of pro-lifers in Argentina, who fended off the legalization of abortion by a mere handful of votes in the senate, I interviewed a prominent Argentinian pro-life activist to discuss how the pro-life movement mobilized millions of people and what their strategy was going forward. Earlier in…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Progressives in the United Kingdom are learning the first of what may be a series of uncomfortable lessons: Not all of the immigrants they champion share their values. In Birmingham, The Guardian reported this week, a programme to teach British primary school children about LGBT issues at Parkfield community school was shut down after…
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By Jonathon Van Maren For those of you trying to keep up, in 2019 feminism is now divided into two main factions: Traditional radical feminists like Meagan Murphy and Germaine Greer, who reject the idea that biological men can become women and see the agenda of transgender activists as an attack on the sex-based protections…
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