By Jonathon Van Maren The Republic of Ireland has fallen. A coalition of the powerful–Irish politicians who ran on pro-life platforms a few short years ago before abruptly betraying their supporters, the international abortion industry, the media, much of academia, a gaggle of celebrities, and the European elites–have finally prevailed in their relentless efforts to…
By Jeff Dykstra Do you find it harder to make the case against euthanasia than against abortion? That might be, in part, because we have less experience – abortion has been legal in Canada since 1969, and euthanasia only since 2016. Also, in abortion, we have victims who need advocates because they can’t speak for…
By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone who is listening to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban lately is probably getting the distinct feeling that he has been reading and re-reading Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. Over and over again, Orban is referencing the “Islamisation” of Europe, a term that…
By Jonathon Van Maren Australia is the latest nation to discover that the activists who spent years pushing for gay marriage while insisting that it would have no impact on anyone were lying. Australian LGBT activists, just like those in other Western nations, had absolutely no intention of winning the right to marry and then…
By Jonathon Van Maren Progressives often like to scoff at conservative suspicion of “big government” and state power, mocking concerns of state overreach as paranoid or conspiratorial. After all, one fundamental difference between progressives and conservatives is that progressives believe that the state is the solution to social problems, while conservatives believe the power of…
By Jonathon Van Maren There is a legend that Irish funerals were referred to as “wakes” just in case the person was unconscious rather than dead, and thus people could gather around and keep a close eye on the body for some time before burying it. Perhaps everyone should have been keeping a better eye…
By Jonathon Van Maren Our present generation of progressives can be described in many ways, but one key characteristic that can be safely ascribed to nearly all of them is a simple one: Contempt of our ancestors. Whether it be the statue-smashing iconoclasm gripping North America, the purging of our historical heroes as bigots who…
By Jonathon Van Maren Trudeau and the abortion activists who triggered the whole Canada Summer Jobs “kerfuffle” may think that they’re out the woods, as the initial wave of condemnations from every quarter have slowed, and there is now just a steady trickle of stories detailing various churches, non-profits, and even municipalities which have been…
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…