I’ve been wondering for some time what the great Princeton professor Robert P. George thinks of the evangelical war over Trump triggered by the Christianity Today op-ed calling for his removal. George is one of the most intelligent, principled, and level-headed minds in America, and he’s written many books on religious liberty, freedom of conscience,…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few stories on the latest culture war happenings. Like me, I’m sure you didn’t miss keeping up with this stuff over the Christmas holidays. *** The scandals emanating from so-called transgender clinics are proceeding apace, with consistent resignation from staff highlighting the experimental nature of what is being done to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back on December 19, I wrote a column in this space on J.K. Rowling’s decision to tweet out her support of Maya Forstater, a 45-year-old tax expert who was recently fired for expressing her view that women could not become men and men could not become women simply by saying so. An employment…
By Jonathon Van Maren As the autopsies of the decade roll out, it is hard not to marvel at how much has changed in ten short years. The panic over climate change has reached a crescendo that makes Al Gore look relaxed. The Arab Spring took down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Once again, my work has taken me on the road every month in the past year for speaking engagements on abortion, pro-life strategy and apologetics, and other largely depressing subjects. I’ll admit that by year’s end, I’m more than ready to stay home and read books for a couple of weeks.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ronan Farrow’s explosive account of the reporting that took down Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein reads like a John Grisham novel that is, at times, almost unbelievable. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators details how Farrow tracked down the “white whale of journalism” and painstakingly secured the sources to…
By Jonathon Van Maren At pro-life presentations across North America, audience members often ask me how to bring the subject of abortion up with children. After all, when parents are participating in pro-life activism or attending pro-life events, it is perfectly natural for a child to wonder what, exactly, it means to be “pro-life” in…
By Jonathon Van Maren In North Korea this week, tiny clusters of Christians will celebrate Christmas in total secrecy, taking to the woods or meeting quietly in their homes. They will be risking a sentence of death — Kim Jong-un banned Christmas in 2017 and demanded that his subjects instead celebrate his grandmother, Kim Jon-suk,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report with more good news for pro-lifers, on the heels of the Guttmacher Institute’s report that the abortion rates have been trending steadily downwards. For analysis on what this report means, I spoke with Dr. Michael New, one of…
By Jonathon Van Maren When I see that J.K. Rowling is trending, I generally assume that she’s said something particularly “woke,” as she is often wont to do. Perhaps a restatement of her support for abortion and the funding of feticide overseas, or another snarky comment about President Donald Trump, or maybe even another revelation…