By Jonathon Van Maren So true to form, United Conservative Party leadership candidate Brian Jean has decided to make public his commitment to choice in education for Alberta parents, once he realized that his opponent Jason Kenney had received popular support for doing the same thing. “From what we have seen in the social studies…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Great explorers. Former presidents. Rebel generals. It is unfortunate that the progressive interest in history has come so firmly harnessed to iconoclasm, or it might even be encouraging. Instead, it took several hurricanes to finally knock footage of angry activists mounting nondescript statues in town squares across the United States of…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Plenty of people ask me why I spend so much time critiquing the alt-right and many of those associated with it. Why, I get asked, do I criticize the alt-right when the alt-left is just as bad, and happen to be the sworn enemies of conservatism? There’s a few answers to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As the progressive war on dead men rages on across the United States, vandals chose what might seem like a strange target earlier this month: They spray-painted “[expletive] law” in green on the floor and statue of the Lincoln Memorial. Those who wish to wage war on those who lived in…
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By Jonathon Van Maren There’s a reason that the suffragettes of days gone by may have founded first wave feminism, but were still resolutely anti-abortion: It’s because most of them believed, quite accurately, that abortion would end up serving as a way for promiscuous men to skip out on the natural consequences of sex. (That’s…
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By Jonathon Van Maren In the weeks since my daughter Charlotte was born, I’ve tried to write a column about her arrival several times. Writing about the moment we discovered her existence was easy, but when our beautiful daughter officially arrived, my thoughts log-jammed. How could I possibly explain the feeling of seeing the doctor…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Most watchers of the Canadian media scene would probably agree: The ongoing meltdown of Ezra Levant’s online commentary outfit, The Rebel, is an implosion nearly unmatched in severity and swiftness. It started with roving journalist Faith Goldy’s coverage of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which appeared overly sympathetic to…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As everyone surely already knows, a white supremacist smashed his vehicle into a crowd of left-wing counter-protestors this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, in an act of domestic terrorism that claimed one life and injured over a dozen others. Throughout the weekend, the Ku Kux Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists had marched…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Like millions of other people, my first fascination with the epic struggle between the American North and South began when I watched Ken Burns’ magnificent documentary series, The Civil War. The interest sparked by Burns’ masterpiece led to a period where I read everything I could get my hands on, from…
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By Jonathon Van Maren After the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, commentators on the Left and the Right are penning columns and blog posts as fast as they possibly can, trying to make sense of the whole thing. Antifa thugs showed up to confront white supremacists waving Nazi flags on American streets, and ugliness was…
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