Paul Lavergne: A psychotherapist reveals how porn is ruining everything
Paul Lavergne, a psychotherapist specializing in sex addiction, joined Jonathon Van Maren to explain how pornography is ruining our culture.
Smartphones have given your teen daughter a secret life – and it’s destroying her
By Jonathon Van Maren July 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A couple of years ago, I wrote a column in this space titled “The Horror Stories Are Real—Don’t Give Your Children A Smartphone.” I explained how smartphones are transforming the world teenagers live in, creating a virtual universe impervious to parents and guardians—a universe created and…
Never Trump, the Left, and a President Like No Other: A Conversation with Conrad Black
By Jonathon Van maren Earlier this week, Conrad Black was kind enough to join me for our third interview (the previous two being on his book on the history of Canada and criminal justice reform). This time, our topic was his fascinating new book, Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other. Below, with my…
Trudeau’s hypocrisy in dealing with ‘groping’ allegations destroys the credibility of his feminism
By Jonathon Van Maren July 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On July 2, the Globe and Mail published an interview titled “Conservative status of women critic Rachael Harder challenges Liberal version of feminism,” and the 31-year-old Lethbridge MP pulled no punches in her conversation with parliamentary reporter Laura Stone. Harder, who was blocked by Liberal and NDP members…
Put down your phone. Pick up a book.
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…
Bill Maher and Michael Moore talk civil war, worry that liberals don’t have enough guns to fight “fascism”
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…
How big families destroy identity politics and identitarianism
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…
Reporting from Putin’s Russia
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…
UK schools ban girls from wearing skirts to become more “inclusive” for trans people
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…
As America’s culture war heats up, leftists seem to brace for violence
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…