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…
By Jonathon Van Maren August 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – It would be difficult to find a place more lacking in diversity of worldview than the universe of late-night television. On nearly every single issue, the hosts march shoulder to shoulder in lock-step with one another: Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah,…
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…
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…
By Jonathon Van Maren In what is being widely panned as a move to court pro-lifers, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced this week that his party would no longer apply a “litmus test” on abortion—specifically, that financial backing would not be withheld from anti-abortion candidates in the…
By Jonathon Van Maren There has rarely been a career implosion so swift and so spectacular as that of Milo Yiannopoulos. On February 17, he appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” where he did what he does best: tried to come off as a lovable but incorrigible rapscallion while flattering the host without…
By Jonathon Van Maren For the past decade or so, social conservatives have heard the same mantra: Your issues aren’t winnable. The Left owns this territory. In spite of a slowly growing pro-life consensus and hundreds of pro-life laws on the state level resulting in the lowest abortion rate since Roe v. Wade, many smug…