Peter Hitchens warns that war may be coming to Europe
British author and commentator Peter Hitchens joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss Russia, the West, and why war in Europe may be inevitable.
The Progressive Pecking Order: Trans Activists Evict Drag Queens
By Jonathon Van Maren One of the most fascinating—albeit ridiculous—components of the trans movement is the extent to which they’ve been able to sweep the movements that preceded it from their places of social prestige within the progressive hierarchy. The trans movement is, for example, at open war with the old guard feminist movement—after all,…
Rep. Keith Ellison says Democrats need to win or women will die
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the weekend, I noted the weird characterization of Chick-Fil-A by a columnist in the New Yorker as “creepy” because of its “pervasive Christian traditionalism.” This is how societies polarize and tear apart: When there is no longer any common ground to meet on, and the “other,” whoever that might be,…
The “gender-neutral” fad is one reason that people can’t take the West seriously
By Jonathon Van Maren I was in Eastern Europe recently, and one thing that struck me is the extent to which many people do not see Westerners as sinister, but simply as silly. While we engage in “pronoun wars” and our student activists howl about various imagined injustices committed against ever smaller and newer sexual…
Jordan Peterson, history, and why we’ve forgotten the Holocaust
By Jonathon Van Maren On March 27, CNN reported that an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor named Mireille Knoll was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, which was then set on fire—officials believe the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. As a ten-year-old girl, Knoll evaded the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 that resulted in the Nazi-directed…
How the Pro-Abortion Left Targets Africa: Obianuju Ekeocha
Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian-born scientist who runs Culture of Life Africa, is a world-renowned pro-life activist. She joined Jonathon Van Maren to talk about her new book, Target Africa: Ideological Neo-colonialism of the Twenty-first Century.
The New Yorker says Chick-Fil-A in NYC is “creepy” because of its “pervasive Christian traditionalism”
By Jonathon Van Maren Every once in awhile, a column surfaces that starkly illustrates the Left’s contempt for those who disagree with them. Last month, it was a New York Times columnist writing that he couldn’t wait for his entire generation to die off so America could finally become the progressive paradise it was meant…
The Globe and Mail highlights Vancouver abortionist as an assisted suicide pioneer
By Jonathon Van Maren As Canada’s euthanasia regime takes shape, suicide activists are already pushing to expand the categories of eligibility for killing. Nothing highlights this fact more starkly than a recent essay published in the Globe and Mail titled “Fight to the death: Why Canada’s physician-assisted suicide dying debate has only just begin,” penned…
VICTORY: President Donald Trump deals sex traffickers another blow
By Jonathon Van Maren On the heels of the FBI’s shutdown of Backpage.com, which has been a huge facilitator of human trafficking for years, President Donald Trump has struck another blow against the sex traffickers, signing an essential piece of legislation on April 11. From the Washington Post: President Trump signed a bill Wednesday that gives federal…
An update from the front lines of the global abortion wars
By Jonathon Van Maren Around the world, abortion activists are on the march, trying with all their might to push feticide as a fundamental right in countries that have long rejected the destruction of pre-born children. In Ireland, of course, pro-life activists are in a race against time before a referendum on May 25, when…