By Jonathon Van Maren As the Last Post played in cenotaphs and cemeteries around the world yesterday, millions marked the solemn anniversary: A full century since the guns of the Great War finally fell silent at 11 AM on November 11, 1918. Over seventeen million died in the muck in a war that would end…
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By Jonathon Van Maren For the past couple of weeks, FOX News host Tucker Carlson has been on the interview circuit, promoting his book Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. The Republican Party, he has noted, must become the party of the middle class—in other…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It was only (so to speak) a matter of time: A 69-year-old Dutchman is in court, demanding the right to legally change his age. As a man pushing seventy, he says that it is hard to find work (he’s a pensioner, and many employers are reluctant to hire him), and has…
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By Jonathon Van Maren November 7, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – I will admit that when I saw the trailer to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s new documentary Shut Him Down: The Rise of Jordan Peterson, I was very suspicious. For starters, the preview seemed to indicate that the film—released last Friday—was going to be the sort of…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Conservative Member of Parliament Tony Clement has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus following a brief and sordid scandal wherein he, “shared sexually explicit images and a video of myself to someone who I believed was a consenting female recipient,” in his words. Unfortunately for Clement, he was actually sending…
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By Jonathon Van Maren A few takeaways from the midterm election results. I’m happy with the outcome. Republicans have expanded their majority in the Senate, and that means that the caravan of conservative justices will continue to flood the circuit courts and perhaps even the Supreme Court. The Trump Administration is constructing a judicial dam…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve only been to Italy once, but it was hard not to notice: There were very few children around. A few of my friends went there on vacation more recently, and they not only observed the same thing, but were at several points swarmed by people who wanted to coo at…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As it turns out, the Alberta New Democratic Party of Premier Rachel Notley and her thuggish Education Minister David Eggen is not only guilty of bullying private religious schools—their intolerance for anyone who might want to speak or think for themselves extends even to those in their own party. According to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren I’m not quite as optimistic as many people seem to be about the midterm elections today, although I may be as wrong as I was about Donald Trump’s ability to get elected president. The nonstop and frenzied political carousel that America seems to be trapped on is sometimes exhausting to the…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching, and public education,” there is perhaps no academic so articulate and so fierce in his defence of Western civilization as Sir Roger Scruton. A graduate of Cambridge, anti-Communist Cold Warrior, professor in the Humanities Research Institute at Buckingham University, and author of over…
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