By Jonathon Van Maren The definition of a “crybully” is someone “who engages in intimidation, harassment, or other abusive behaviour while claiming to be a victim.” In other words, they use their claims of victimhood as a club, insisting that it gives them unique insight into an injustice being perpetrated on whichever identity group they…
By Jonathon Van Maren Douglas Murray’s invigorating new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, has just been released, and you can tell by the chapter titles alone—Gay, Women, Race, Trans—that he won’t be strolling through any minefields. He’ll be doing some salsa dancing, with today’s triggered progressives exploding in his wake. I’ll have…
Over at the National Catholic Register, Benjamin Wiker, Professor of Political Science and Director of Human Life Studies as Franciscan University, proposes an interesting plan in a column titled “Here’s How We Can Stop the Transgender Juggernaut”: Sue the doctors carrying out sex-change surgeries (now helpfully called “gender affirmation surgeries”) on children. Wiker isn’t the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back when I was still a university student in British Columbia, I used to travel to other campuses quite often to help out with pro-life displays. Debating secular university students is an always interesting and sometimes infuriating experience, and one of my friends used to box pro-abortion philosophy students into admitting…
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Back in February, I noted in one of my columns for LifeSiteNews that teenagers—especially teen girls—were increasingly pushing back against the drive to impose gender fluidity on their schools. For woke progressive adults, the trans cause is in–another ideological pet project that allows them to virtue-signal more effectively (especially as scores of new pronouns and…
By Jonathon Van Maren When I first spotted the headline on Sky News, I genuinely thought it might be a joke. “An adopted Gentoo chick raised by a same-sex penguin couple will become the world’s first penguin not to have its gender assigned,” Sky News tweeted out. “At 6:40 am we will be speaking to…
By Jonathon Van Maren For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing…
On today’s podcast, I spoke with several people who remember the real Laura Ingalls Wilder, Almanzo Wilder, and Rose Wilder Lane, decades ago when the Wilders lived in Mansfield. A fascinating link with America’s pioneer past: My recent review of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder: There are now just a handful…
By Jonathon Van Maren I wrote it at the time, and evidence has now emerged that I (along with many, many other pro-lifers) was right: The attempt to torpedo Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and destroy his life was all about abortion. According to a new book by the National Law Journal’s Ryan…