By Jonathon Van Maren With the passing of Phyllis Schlafly at the age of 92 yesterday, a pro-life legend has fallen. I met her in Ohio just prior to the Republican Convention this summer, and frail as she was—I didn’t know she was suffering from cancer at the time–she was still working hard to further…
By Jonathon Van Maren For those who are tempted to see journalist-turned-parrot Michael Coren as a man who saw the light and decided that support for gay marriage was more consistent with Christianity than his previous position was, consider the number of things Coren has done an about-face on since he was outed as no…
By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column condemning the darker elements of the so-called alt-right, highlighting the racism and anti-Semitism that seems prevalent in their online trolling while allowing for the idea that some of the trolls may not actually be racist in their beliefs. The comments I got…
By Jonathon Van Maren With the recent implosion of Anthony Weiner’s marriage to Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin after his serial cheating managed to finally wreck more than his career, an unlikely figure came out to condemn pornography’s impact on marriages: former Playboy model Pamela Anderson. In a column in the Wall Street Journal titled…
Former Member of Parliament Stephen Woodworth has launched a project to project democratic freedoms in Canada. He joins Jonathon to discuss his new initiative and what he hopes to accomplish.
By Jonathon Van Maren Just a brief postscript to the ongoing discussion triggered by my column on the “burkini” ban on some French beaches, which critics responded to by saying that they thought it was a good and reasonable thing to do, to which I responded by pointing out that throwing our lot in with…
By Jonathon Van Maren So, a number of people have gotten quite prickly about my recent article on the public disrobing of female Muslim sunbathers in the name of “good morals” on French beaches by armed government employees. I’ve promised to respond to the objections, so here goes. Objection One: The West has a duty…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Guardian has published what I actually found to be a rather horrifying set of pictures in which armed police officers approach a sunbathing Muslim woman wearing a “burkini” on a beach in Nice, France. She is wearing a tunic, leggings, and a headscarf. They then appear to force her to…
By Jonathon Van Maren If there’s one place that abortion activists hate more than a maternity ward, it must be pro-life Ireland. They simply cannot countenance the fact that there is a Western country, in the current year, that recognizes the right of human beings developing in the womb to live and grow in safety.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Being of Dutch descent, I grew up hearing stories from my grandparents about World War II. My grandmother watched the flames and the smoke of Rotterdam’s rubble sparking upwards after the Luftwaffe offloaded its explosive cargo over the city. One of my great-uncles was sent to a labor camp in Germany,…