By Jonathon Van Maren Your latest cultural update is here—the good, the bad, and the ugly. *** I wonder what it will take for people to get fed up with the relentless sexualization of children. Drag Queen Storytime is bad enough, but this report from LifeSiteNews—that shows children laying on top of drag queens—is absolutely…
By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of years ago, I predicted that we would soon arrive at the day here in Canada where Christian political candidates would be asked to either deny what Christians have believed for the past 2,000 years, or be pronounced unfit for public office. Already political leaders are berated if they…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this week, I wrote a column on the stomach-turning sex crimes (one of which included the murder of a young teenage girl) that were fueled by pornography, and the fact that violent pornography has become a ubiquitous part of our youth culture. A few days ago, The Atlantic published an article by Olga Khazan detailing…
By Jonathon Van Maren Filmmaker Ryan Stockert’s new documentary The Missing Project is quite literally a unique one, the first such film that attempts to take a close look at not only the abortion debate in Canada, but at the Canadian pro-life movement, the internal debates and disagreements, and the impact of abortion on many…
By Jonathon Van Maren If last night’s Democratic debate made anything crystal clear, it is that abortion extremism in its wokest and most horrific form is going to be at center-stage for the duration of this presidential election. This crowd of feticide fans wants abortion on demand, without apology, throughout all nine months of pregnancy…
By Jonathon Van Maren In the days after I arrived in Ireland last May with several of my colleagues prior to the abortion referendum, the headlines were buzzing with the details of a stomach-turning story: A 14-year-old schoolgirl had gone missing. Days later, Ana Kriegel was found dead in an abandoned farmhouse in Lucan, roughly…
By Jonathon Van Maren For a man who breathed his last at the young age of forty-six, Eric Arthur Blair—better known as George Orwell—had an impact on the Anglosphere he left behind that is almost unparalleled. A journalist, novelist, and diarist, his works have been read by generations of schoolchildren, and his name is invoked…
This is absolutely fantastic news from the Press Association: The forced abortion ordered by Justice Lieven was overturned on appeal: Doctors must not be allowed to perform an abortion on a pregnant mentally-ill woman, Court of Appeal judges have ruled. A judge on Friday concluded that a pregnancy termination was in the woman’s best interests.…