By Jonathon Van Maren Back when I was still a university student in British Columbia, I used to travel to other campuses quite often to help out with pro-life displays. Debating secular university students is an always interesting and sometimes infuriating experience, and one of my friends used to box pro-abortion philosophy students into admitting…
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Back in February, I noted in one of my columns for LifeSiteNews that teenagers—especially teen girls—were increasingly pushing back against the drive to impose gender fluidity on their schools. For woke progressive adults, the trans cause is in–another ideological pet project that allows them to virtue-signal more effectively (especially as scores of new pronouns and…
By Jonathon Van Maren When I first spotted the headline on Sky News, I genuinely thought it might be a joke. “An adopted Gentoo chick raised by a same-sex penguin couple will become the world’s first penguin not to have its gender assigned,” Sky News tweeted out. “At 6:40 am we will be speaking to…
By Jonathon Van Maren For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing…
On today’s podcast, I spoke with several people who remember the real Laura Ingalls Wilder, Almanzo Wilder, and Rose Wilder Lane, decades ago when the Wilders lived in Mansfield. A fascinating link with America’s pioneer past: My recent review of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder: There are now just a handful…
By Jonathon Van Maren I wrote it at the time, and evidence has now emerged that I (along with many, many other pro-lifers) was right: The attempt to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and destroy his life was all about abortion. According to a new book by the National Law Journal’s Ryan…
By Jonathon Van Maren If one transgender activist has her way, the United Kingdom will soon be recognizing some biological women—who bore their own children—as “fathers.” According to the Metro UK earlier this week, trans activist Freddy McConnell “has appealed to be recognised as his child’s father after legal medical documents [indicate] that he can only…
By Jonathon Van Maren There are now just a handful of people left alive who knew Laura Ingalls Wilder, and William Turner, the former chairman of the Great Southern Bank, is one of them. After stumbling across his name in Caroline Fraser’s powerful new biography Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, I…
By Jonathon Van Maren Every so often, a pop culture phenomenon reminds us just how thoroughly we have abandoned our Judeo-Christian heritage in the year of our Lord 2019. The latest example is an upcoming Downton Abbey film, a cinematic accompaniment to the wildly popular six-season period drama that followed the lives of the Crawley family and…