By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of days ago, I watched a VICE News report on one of the latest episodes of America’s most pathetic trend: The furious temper tantrums of university students, who utilize fictitious oppression hierarchies to wield their fake victimhood as a weapon and get those who disagree with them fired. There’s…
Harper Lee, the famously private author of one of the 20th Century’s greatest books “To Kill A Mockingbird,” let only a few people into her secret world. Dr. Wayne Flynt was one of those friends, and he recently published a book titled “Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee.” He joined Jonathon Van Maren to…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few short updates: **** Canada is again receiving international recognition, but for all the same reasons. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s long war against the family—supported by Progressive Conservative backstabber Patrick Brown—has attracted attention from Christian organizations and religious liberty watchers around the world. Dr. Scott Masson summed up the situation…
By Jonathon Van Maren On Monday, I joined Dr. Annalise Trudell of Anova on the Andrew Lawton Show to debate the question: “Is pornography inherently harmful to society?” Dr. Trudell, who lists her research interests as gender issues, youth engagement, feminist poststructuralism, feminist praxis in community, and queer issues, was planning to make a single…
By Jonathon Van Maren Many may not recognize his name, but like Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase “the medium is the message” has entered the mainstream consciousness as a term that captures our times. I was first exposed to McLuhan in university, when one of my professors insisted that we…
In “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow successfully upends the entire narrative of Obama’s life, calling his memoirs “historical fiction” and explaining, through hundreds of interviews, how Obama created a narrative in order to win political power. He joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss that fascinating story.
By Jonathon Van Maren So Pride Month has come again to Canada, when drag queens and nudists prance the streets and any politician who might find himself not entirely in lockstep with the LGBTQ Alphabet Soup crowd—or perhaps simply doesn’t care for scenes of public indecency—finds himself relentlessly harassed by the Media McCarthyites with strident…
By Jonathon Van Maren If I happen to be in a certain state of mind, scrolling through my Twitter feed is pretty terrible for my blood pressure. The progressives are no longer at war with conservatives, or even with traditionalists—they are at war with biological reality, history, and truth itself. Just to give you an…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Anthony Esolen’s recent book Out of the Ashes, he mourns the passing—and heralds the return—of a time when communities existed—real communities, where the baker came outside each morning and helped children across the street for school even though no one had ever asked him to, when people trusted each other,…
By Jonathon Van Maren As many of you will know, I have been following the progress of Motion 47, which had the Canadian Standing Committee on Health examining the impact of pornography on sexual violence and on society in general. With over 80% of men regularly consuming pornography and now nearly half of women, it…