By Jonathon Van Maren Conservative Member of Parliament Tony Clement has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus following a brief and sordid scandal wherein he, “shared sexually explicit images and a video of myself to someone who I believed was a consenting female recipient,” in his words. Unfortunately for Clement, he was actually sending…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few takeaways from the midterm election results. I’m happy with the outcome. Republicans have expanded their majority in the Senate, and that means that the caravan of conservative justices will continue to flood the circuit courts and perhaps even the Supreme Court. The Trump Administration is constructing a judicial dam…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve only been to Italy once, but it was hard not to notice: There were very few children around. A few of my friends went there on vacation more recently, and they not only observed the same thing, but were at several points swarmed by people who wanted to coo at…
By Jonathon Van Maren As it turns out, the Alberta New Democratic Party of Premier Rachel Notley and her thuggish Education Minister David Eggen is not only guilty of bullying private religious schools—their intolerance for anyone who might want to speak or think for themselves extends even to those in their own party. According to…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’m not quite as optimistic as many people seem to be about the midterm elections today, although I may be as wrong as I was about Donald Trump’s ability to get elected president. The nonstop and frenzied political carousel that America seems to be trapped on is sometimes exhausting to the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching, and public education,” there is perhaps no academic so articulate and so fierce in his defence of Western civilization as Sir Roger Scruton. A graduate of Cambridge, anti-Communist Cold Warrior, professor in the Humanities Research Institute at Buckingham University, and author of over…
By Jonathon Van Maren As the devastating results of the Republic of Ireland’s abortion referendum came in on May 25, abortion activists erupted into wild celebration. Several of them waved a sign declaring, ominously and triumphantly, that “The North Is Next.” Many people forget that while abortion has become legal in the Republic of Ireland,…
By Jonathon Van Maren Following a brutal attack by Islamic State gunmen on a bus full of Egyptian Coptic Christians on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday that resulted in seven deaths and at least seven other casualties (some of them children), Egypt’s interior ministry reported yesterday that nineteen Islamist militants connected…
By Jonathon Van Maren Abortion activists in Scandinavia are outraged at a recent suggestion by Norway’s leader that abortion restrictions should be tightened in a few specific circumstances. Currently in Norway, abortion is legal on demand up until the twelfth week of pregnancy, by application until eighteen weeks, and after that in so-called “special circumstances”…
By Jonathon Van Maren I don’t remember any point, in my mere fifteen or so years of political awareness, ever hearing so many discussions about “nationalism.” To some, it seems, the word is a mere synonym for “patriotism,” and Donald Trump’s use of the world is simply one more indication of his commitment to putting…