By Jonathon Van Maren After the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, commentators on the Left and the Right are penning columns and blog posts as fast as they possibly can, trying to make sense of the whole thing. Antifa thugs showed up to confront white supremacists waving Nazi flags on American streets, and ugliness was…
By Jonathon Van Maren The irony pervasive in mainstream media reports is so thick these days that it’s beginning to feel like quicksand. As I noted in my column earlier this week, Donald Trump is under attack by the entire progressive movement, who seem simultaneously in the grip of a violent paranoia while having lost…
By Jonathon Van Maren I anticipated that quite a few people would disagree with my analysis of Milo Yiannopoulos after attending one of his speaking gigs at Michigan State University last week, but I was mildly surprised at a few of the points of disagreement. He’s brilliant! some said, which is something I do not…
By Jonathon Van Maren When we pulled up to Conrad Hall at Michigan State University for the—and you’ll have to excuse the language—Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous F****t Tour,” there was already a massive pileup of angry people up against the double glass doors, their hoarse screams indicating that they’d been there for awhile even though we…