By Jonathon Van Maren It is a singular irony that both federal and provincial left-wing parties like to claim that Canada’s assortment of conservative parties have a nefarious hidden agenda: They want to re-open the abortion debate. In fact, Conservative politicians, for the most part, want nothing of the kind—abortion is an issue that most…
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By Jonathon Van Maren On April 11, I noted that abortion activists in El Salvador were making a massive push to relax restrictions in that country, and that even the government’s health ministry had indicated support for changing the country’s strict pro-life laws. LifeSiteNews is now reporting that the abortion activists have failed: A massive…
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By Jonathon Van Maren If you had asked any Canadian conservative five years ago if Alberta would be the main battleground in the war over the rights of Christians to pass their values and their beliefs on to their children, they would have laughed. And yet, here we are. The Alberta NDP wants to transform…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to live in a place that is less insane than the West, and what it must be like for people who do live outside the West to watch once-great nations like the United States of America fall prey not just to bad ideas,…
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Josh Gilman of Strength to Fight and Jonathon Van Maren discuss the “incel” movement, an online community of angry young men like mass murderer Elliot Rodger (pictured) and also the alleged Toronto van murderer Alek Minassian–and how pornography fueled their worldview.
By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone mildly interested in traditionalism—be it beautiful old architecture, the preservation of fading cultures, magnificent literature, or simply an instinctive aversion to the ugliness of modernity—has probably heard of the “Wrath of Gnon,” a mysterious Twitter user who seems to spend a lot of time unleashing beauty onto social media. He—I…
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By Jonathon Van Maren As always, Rex Murphy’s comments are pure gold—and he has now weighed in on the revelations that Justin Trudeau’s government is funding anti-pipeline activists (claiming that they will not withhold funding from an organization just because they disagree with its advocacy) while denying funding to groups that refuse to sign off…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Most Canadians do not follow European politics very closely, and so nobody thought much of it when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted out his congratulations to Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who had just secured a third consecutive mandate and a two-thirds majority for his Fidesz party. Canada’s left-leaning…
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By Jonathon Van Maren After Democratic Senator Cory Booker relentlessly grilled then-candidate for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his views of gay marriage, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro mockingly imagined future questions that could be leveled at supporters of traditional marriage: “To verify your tolerance, I now ask that you publicly watch ‘Brokeback Mountain’ without…
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This is the third essay in my series on the history of Christianity in Russia. The first was the Bloody Baptism of Russia, covering the legendary arrival of the Apostle Andrew to the Mongol Invasion. The second covered the Mongol Yoke to the Bolshevik barbarians. This essay examines the Great Soviet Persecutions from the Revolution…
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