By Jonathon Van Maren Ben Shapiro is arguably conservatism’s fastest rising star, with his wildly popular podcast, his campus speeches, and a New York Times bestseller keeping him at the top of the pundit pack. He’s also a consistently powerful voice for the pro-life position, debating students on abortion during his campus appearances, frequently visiting the…
By Jonathon Van Maren This is the Epilogue of my 2017 book Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion. It can be ordered here. In January of 1976, an essay by Dr. Richard Selzer was published in Esquire magazine titled, “What I Saw at the Abortion.” Selzer did not consider…
By Jonathon Van Maren I will admit up front that I do not follow British politics particularly closely and that most of my friends who do were backing Boris Johnson for the leadership of the United Kingdom’s Tory party. He is, apparently, a conservative of sorts, although when anyone who is actually conservative presses his…
As I was saying earlier this week, more and more evidence is revealing just how much damage the transgender ideology is doing to children. From The Christian Institute: The NHS’s only specialised gender identity clinic for children has been accused of ignoring its own study and lowering the age at which children can take puberty…
For many secular people who haven’t been paying particular attention to the transgender phenomenon, the concerns expressed by those of us who oppose the ideology of gender fluidity often seem somewhat bewildering, or perhaps simply appear to be knee-jerk opposition to something “new.” I’ve provided many examples of why transgenderism is dangerous on this blog…
By Jonathon Van Maren On August 8, the one year anniversary of Argentina’s vote to shut down abortion legalization, the growing “For the Two Lives” movement is planning a massive party across South America, Latin America, and the world. Wielding the blue kerchief as a symbol, millions of people are planning to rally across the…
By Jonathon Van Maren About a month before he died, I wrote a column on the primitive power of Montreal troubadour Leonard Cohen’s poetry and the strong anti-abortion sentiment that coursed through much of his writing. Especially as he grew older, Cohen also seemed to grow disillusioned with the sexual revolution and the broken hearts and emotional…
By Jonathon Van Maren As I noted in my column earlier this week, the case of Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv — the creepy transgender activist suing a number of female beauty technicians for refusing to wax his genitals on the premise that as a “woman,” he is entitled to be serviced by them — has gone truly viral.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Here’s some pleasant news to start off our culture wars update, from FOX News: The Trump administration stopped taxpayer dollars from going to abortion referrals at publicly funded family planning centers on Monday. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, sued the administration, along with 20 states and the District of Columbia, in an…