By Jonathon Van Maren So, where to start? Like many other political junkies, I spent much of Saturday evening watching the tabloidization of American politics unfold in real time on Twitter, with the first revelation—that Donald Trump was caught on live mic bragging about making moves on married women and his celebrity entitlement to grab…
By Jonathon Van Maren Just in case anyone was wondering how out of touch our ruling elites are, consider this cute little story: Status of Women Minister Patricia Hajdu has just indicated it is open to funding women’s advocacy groups from a diversity of perspectives—as long as they are all pro-abortion. Hajdu said in an…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 30, 2016 (Update #3 from the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit in Houston, Texas.) Ran Gavreili was a combat soldier in the Israeli military, and his presentation: “In Our Homes: Preventing Sexual Violence and Educating for Healthy Relationships” makes adolescence and the now extended adolescence of the twenties sound…
By Jonathon Van Maren Another update from the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit in Houston, Texas September 29, 2016 (continued) At dinner, Josh asked me what stood out at the conference so far. I had to think. On one hand, I’d absorbed a lot of extraordinarily depressing information. On the other hand, I’d never…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 28, 2016 I touched down in Houston, Texas, in mid-afternoon with my colleague Josh Gilman, the executive director of the two-year-old Canadian anti-porn start-up, Strength to Fight. We were flying in to attend the third annual Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit, a gathering of anti-porn activists, researchers, scholars, and organizations…
By Jonathon Van Maren The big question of the night, of course, is whether Trump or Hillary won the first presidential debate. But this is a weird year in an even weirder election cycle, so normal rules don’t apply and thus speculating doesn’t go very far. After all, I thought Trump got demolished in each…
By Jonathon Van Maren Based on a quick reading of today’s Canadian headlines, one must ask the question: Does anyone like Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown? The Globe and Mail has revealed that Patrick Brown told social conservatives he was opposed to gay marriage, which was consistent with his previous House of Commons vote on…
By Jonathon Van Maren Judging by the comments in my Facebook feed, Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kellie Leitch’s suggestion that we force immigrants to agree to a set of “Canadian values” before permitting them to come to Canada is quite popular among quite a few conservative Christians. On the face of it, this makes sense:…
By Jonathon Van Maren Leaders of every stripe continue to grovel at the feet of the Rainbow Mafia, and the protection racket—nice little state you have there, it’d be a shame if anything happened to it—is being ramped up. This time, North Carolina is being hit by the wildly popular NCAA, who announced sanctimoniously that…
By Jonathon Van Maren “The idea that we should all feel ashamed of ourselves, that we’re all damaged losers is really preposterous,” announced the CBC post on Facebook, featuring an article titled, “Why Pamela Anderson is wrong to shame porn when denouncing Anthony Weiner.” The statement comes from Kristen Gilbert, director of education at Options…