By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this year, Pew Research Center released their statistics on the state of reading in America, and it doesn’t look great: Nearly one in four Americans had not read a book in the past year. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel decided that those numbers seemed pretty high, and hit the streets…
By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this week, I wrote a column examining the likelihood of violence over the next several months, as both Right and Left gear up to go to war over the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice to replace Anthony Kennedy. I noted that some on the Left are already creating justifications…
By Jonathon Van Maren About a year ago, I wrote a personal essay explaining why my having come from a large family was such an effective deterrent to many of the current identitarian ideologies that have arisen from our poisoned politics of late. In short, I never needed to “find my tribe” or “discover my…
By Jonathon Van Maren In March, I traveled to Russia to meet with Danish journalist Iben Thranholm on a research project to examine the connections between faith, politics, and power in modern Russia. Here is my reporting from Russia, in one place for your convenience if you happen to be interested. Our day with a…
By Jonathon Van maren It is a curious characteristic of progressive movements that they often begin by singing praises to a rainbow of diversity, and end by enforcing dull, grey conformism. Gender fluidity is in the process of being sold to the public as a joyful experience in which the shackles of heteronormative binarism are…
By Jonathon Van Maren July 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Perhaps nothing has revealed the stark American divide like the question that sprang from the lips of commentators from the moment the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy was announced: Will there be violence?There is in this question a recognition that two great masses of American people have moved…
By Jonathon Van Maren June 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Every year, thousands upon thousands of people arrive in De Smet, South Dakota in minivans filled with sweaty and excited children. They are here to see a small, nondescript white frame house with a sign in front of it that explains why everyone is here: Ingalls Home…
Longtime politician and founder of two political parties Preston Manning joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about his new book and faith in the public square.
By Jonathon Van Maren When Canada’s Supreme Court announced that a decision on the Trinity Western University law school case was imminent and the forthcoming decision on an injunction against Bill 24 in Alberta was suddenly delayed, I immediately suspected that the Alberta court was waiting to find out what would happen with TWU before…
By Jonathon Van Maren Justice Anthony Kennedy, the longstanding swing vote on the United States Supreme Court, has sent his resignation later to President Donald Trump. He was, as David French described, “the primary judicial guardian of abortion rights and was more responsible than any other justice for the relentless legal march of the sexual…