By Jonathon Van Maren Back in December, I wrote a column explaining how the LGBT movement’s massive push to stomp out all dissent to their agenda—especially the attempts to force a lightning-fast acceptance of transgenderism—was potentially having the opposite effect. Many ordinary liberals who had no problem with gay marriage are increasingly unhappy with the…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few people have asked me to write a bit more on the books I’m reading lately, and so I figured I’d write a very short article on a few I’ve read lately. I try to read a couple of books a week, and I usually read around five at the…
By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve been saying this over and over again, but it seems like every day new evidence surfaces: The trans movement pretends to have the best interests of young people at heart, but the sad reality is that their movement is doing incalculable damage to thousands of kids. Beyond the psychological confusion,…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few months ago, I flew to the Netherlands to cover the Dutch March for Life in the Hague. The organizers had asked me if I would mind staying with a pro-life supporter near the site of the March, a young fellow who rented a little condo nearby—about a ten-minute walk…
By Jonathon Van Maren My inbox is beginning to fill up with emails from the candidates vying for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, after Patrick Brown was abruptly toppled in the face of sexual misconduct allegations last month. Nearly all of the leadership candidates seem focused on rebuilding the coalitions that…
By Jonathon Van Maren For some reason, Canada has become one of the most hostile nations to the conscience rights of physicians in the Western world over the last several years. Many jurisdictions have legalized assisted suicide—but nowhere else has there been so much pressure and coercion to both force physicians to refer for procedures…
By Jonathon Van Maren As religious communities wait with bated breath for the Supreme Court of the United States to deliver a ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case that will determine whether bakers and other creators are permitted to refuse to use their talents in the service of an event…
By Jonathon Van Maren Justin Trudeau has now come out—very briefly—to say that his interruption of a young woman during a town hall meeting to correct her use of the word “mankind” to “peoplekind” was a bad joke, attempting to interrupt the global gale of mocking laughter he managed to incur. I joined in the…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 8 of my 2016 book The Culture War—“Who Killed Religious Freedom?”—I described how the Sexual Revolution succeeded, in part, due to assistance from liberal churches that were either willing to offload unpopular theological teachings in exchange for social acceptance, or thoroughly infiltrated by those who wished to use the…
World-renowned apologist and author Dr. Frank Turek, who has debated the likes of Christopher Hitchens, joins Jonathon Van Maren on The Bridgehead to discuss how to best reach out to an increasingly secular–and hostile–culture.