Tim Challies: How To Keep Your Home Porn-Free
Tim Challies is a Christian author, blogger, and speaker who writes for a large audience at Challies.com. He joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss how to keep homes and communities porn-free.
The Cuban and the Carnival Barker
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve seen plenty of political rallies, and heard plenty of stump speeches. But nothing quite compares to the day I spent with my fiancée in Charleston, South Carolina, where the Republican Civil War was underway. When we arrived at Charleston College, we discovered that Ted Cruz’s event with Fox News host…
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The Sexual Revolution, friendship, and Pope John Paul II
By Jonathon Van Maren It shouldn’t be surprising that every media outlet in the Western world is scrambling to print a wildly-titled article on Pope John Paul II’s friendship with a female Polish academic, but it is tiresome and irritating. Every columnist within reach of a typewriter is salivating over two things: First, that a…
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State of the Culture: Killing dragons and doctors in exile
By Jonathon Van Maren Sorry for the late update this week—I’m still on a campus tour in Florida, so Internet connections come and go and it’s harder to find the time to review all articles! **** I was pleasantly surprised to see Ted Morton in the Calgary Herald last week, delivering a welcome broadside to…
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Surviving Warsaw and the Camps: An Interview with Pinchas Gutter
Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter joins Jonathon Van Maren to tell his story. Pinchas lived through the Warsaw Ghetto, witnessed the Warsaw Uprising, and survived five concentration camps.
Donald Trump versus the Media
By Jonathon Van Maren I can now tell you, with almost complete certainty, what the next several hundred online news articles about Donald Trump will be called: “Donald Trump finally goes too far.” Or perhaps: “This time, Trump has gone too far.” In a burst of creativity, some clickbait writer may even come up with:…
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State of the Culture: Porn, tolerance, and Game of Thrones
By Jonathon Van Maren The culture update is a day late this week, because I’ve just been driving across the United States to Florida to engage students on university campuses on the abortion issue—but better late than never! **** Melanie Phillips lamented in The Spectator that the idea of being “transgendered” was rapidly developing into…
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Canada Then & Now: An Interview with Conrad Black
Conrad Black joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss his book Rise to Greatness: A History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present.
Defending Religious Freedom: An Interview with Robert P. George
Robert P. George of Princeton University, author of the Manhattan Declaration and many books, has been referred to as the leading Christian scholar of our time by the New York Times. He joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss how we can defend religious freedom in the West.
State of the Culture: Donald Trump and rainbow hockey
By Jonathon Van Maren The news this week ranged from frustrating to nauseating—David Daleiden’s indictment, an evangelical leader’s endorsement of a biblically illiterate strip-club owner for President of the United States, and of course, the ongoing Rainbow Blitzkrieg. **** I was incredibly disappointed when Dr. Jerry Falwell Jr. of Liberty University, a bastion of conservatism…
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