The Van Maren Show Episode 37: Os Guinness explains why this is America’s last chance
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Communist China is harvesting organs from religious prisoners, running concentration camps–while making deals with the West
By Jonathon Van Maren Just as the Evil Empire was beginning to crumble and the Cold War was finally coming to an end with a victory for the West, the world was stunned when Communist China massacred students and other unarmed protestors in a brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Many had hoped that Red China…
Pedophilia advocate trumpets “drag kids” as a victory for his cause
By Jonathon Van Maren Back in June, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire wrote a savage column titled “Now the Left is Normalizing Pedophilia Right in Front of Our Eyes.” The growing phenomenon of so-called “drag kids,” he pointed out, is normalizing the sexualization of children, with “the ‘drag kid’ who posed with a naked man, and the…
Religious conservatives who wait to have sex have the happiest marriages
By Jonathon Van Maren One of the most consistently interesting things about our cultural debates surrounding marriage and sexuality is the resistance that many of those on the secular side of the spectrum exhibit towards the slowly growing mountain of evidence supporting the fact that our Judeo-Christian values are often essential to both social stability…
The most popular porn video this week says something truly awful about the state of our culture
By Jonathon Van Maren Each time I write about the extent to which pornography is poisoning our society, there are always people who respond by telling me that I must be exaggerating. There is no way, they tell me, that porn is as ubiquitous as I say it is, and it is simply not possible…
The pro-life movement is on the march around the world–and violent abortion activists are pushing back
By Jonathon Van Maren It has been a busy fall for the pro-life movement already, and I’ve been on the road nearly nonstop. I spoke at a fantastic conference for Protect Life Michigan, a pro-life student group, last weekend, and this week I spoke at World Concerns Day in New Brunswick for the Association of…
The Van Maren Show Episode 36: Fr. Frank Pavone’s pro-life encounters with “Jane Roe,” Mother Teresa, Trump, and more
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Girls sustaining life-changing injuries after boys copycat violent porn
By Jonathon Van Maren Those of you who regularly read my weekly columns here know that I have consistently attempted to highlight the impact of ubiquitous porn use throughout our culture, especially the ways in which these digital toxins are profoundly transforming the way men and women relate to one another. Indisputable evidence of the…
Hillary Clinton says Trump poses an unprecedented threat to abortion in America
By Jonathon Van Maren On Thursday, September 26, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave an address to the 50th anniversary dinner of NARAL Pro-Choice America, one of the most powerful abortion lobby groups in the country. NARAL had put all of its hopes on Hillary during the 2016 election, and her defeat to Donald Trump reduced…
Upset students are pushing back against schools enforcing gender-neutral policies
By Jonathon Van Maren In the October edition of The Atlantic, there is a fascinating and revealing long-form essay by George Packer titled “When the Culture War Comes for the Kids.” Packer, who appears to be an old-school liberal with a few progressive sympathies, writes about his family’s decision to remove his son from an elite…