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…
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…
By Jonathon Van Maren As the research on pornography’s harms continues to pour in, there are still a few lonely researchers attempting to claim that porn is healthy. One of those is Dr. David Ley, who admitted to me on Twitter that he couldn’t even condemn the use of the “c-word,” based on his support…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the arrival of transgenderism as a fad—parents seeking to corner their children’s place on the oppression pyramid early by announcing that their three-year-old is transgender, for example—we are beginning to see the first indicators of what will follow this fad: Brokenness. In fact, the sex change surgeries which are currently…
By Jonathon Van Maren Like the rest of Canadians, I haven’t been paying much attention to the federal NDP’s leadership race, especially as much of what the candidates have to say appears to be indistinguishable from your average mob of angrily bewildered student activists. One candidate especially appears determined to prove that she can beat…
By Jonathon Van Maren In what is being widely panned as a move to court pro-lifers, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced this week that his party would no longer apply a “litmus test” on abortion—specifically, that financial backing would not be withheld from anti-abortion candidates in the…
By Jonathon Van Maren It was on May 23, 1940, that King George VI put out the proclamation, requesting that the following Sunday, May 26, would be a National Day of Prayer. Britain was facing a crisis that threatened her very existence: Adolf Hitler’s Nazi lightning war had smashed through Belgium and France, driving the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Those of us who are paying close attention have long detected a trend on the progressive Left. First, they decry and deride Christian concerns about ground-breaking new policies as stupid fearmongering. Then, once those things actually happen, they defend them loudly while attacking the Christians who sounded the warning in the…
By Jonathon Van Maren As a Dutch-Canadian with a healthy amount of pride in my heritage—all four of my grandparents and my father were born in the Netherlands–it is painful to see nearly-annual news trickle out of the Old Country describing the cutting-edge killing of the emerging euthanasia regime. A week ago, a Dutch Member…
By Jonathon Van Maren This story is truly disturbing—and from the Toronto Star, no less: Thousands of Canadian girls are at risk of female genital mutilation, government officials believe. And some are being taken overseas to have the dangerous procedure done — an illegal act known as “vacation cutting.” Officials from the federal government’s Global…