This new “you can be whatever you claim to be” thing is working out very well for some pretty awful people. You’ll recall that male rapists and other violent criminals are identifying as female to get sent to women’s prisons (where some of them promptly commit the same crimes with their new gender.) Last year,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past several months, I’ve been asked by readers of this column to occasionally recommend particularly helpful resources to educate and equip in responding to the challenges brought about by the culture wars. In December, for example, I reviewed Pro-Life Kids, a wonderful children’s book by Bethany Bomberger that helps parents introduce…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Christians—especially evangelical Christians—have often been roundly mocked for pulling their kids out of the public school system and sending them to private schools, or homeschooling them. Aggressive secularists and snotty progressives like to pretend that home-schooled kids are dumb, backwards hicks (as a direct result of being taught by their dumb,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Sir Roger Scruton passed away yesterday after a six month battle with cancer at the age of 75, and we have lost the man Prime Minister Boris Johnson rightly called our era’s “greatest modern conservative thinker.” His friend Douglas Murray observed that Scruton was “a man who seemed bigger than the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv, Canada’s infamous and delusional transgender activist, is up to his old tricks—namely, suing women for refusing to wax his genitals. Yaniv, who lost his previous case at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, apparently figured that he’d give the court a second chance to decide that he’d been horribly wronged…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Nearly a half-century after Roe v. Wade, abortion is still a subject that bitterly divides America. More than sixty million pre-born children have been extinguished, and their demise is still the rawest of subjects for millions of the people who have survived them. Who would these nameless millions have been? What…
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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…
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