By Jonathon Van Maren Sir Roger Scruton passed away yesterday after a six month battle with cancer at the age of 75, and we have lost the man Prime Minister Boris Johnson rightly called our era’s “greatest modern conservative thinker.” His friend Douglas Murray observed that Scruton was “a man who seemed bigger than the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Back in 2017, I wrote a column explaining why the media’s attempt to smear Dr. Jordan Peterson and other members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web as “alt-right” was so insidious: Because in fact, intellectuals and pundits like Peterson, Shapiro, and others were actually robbing the alt-right of followers and providing…
By Jonathon Van Maren Douglas Murray’s new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity is so full of bang-on observation that on nearly every other page I stopped to find myself nodding: That’s exactly it. Murray (who was kind enough to join me on my podcast when the book was first released) packed…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Douglas Murray’s invigorating new book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, has just been released, and you can tell by the chapter titles alone—Gay, Women, Race, Trans—that he won’t be strolling through any minefields. He’ll be doing some salsa dancing, with today’s triggered progressives exploding in his wake. I’ll have…
By Jonathon Van Maren With millions of others, I watched the sickening livestream yesterday of Notre Dame Cathedral ablaze in the centre of Paris. Just before it collapsed, the iconic spire was transformed into a flaming finger thrust upwards, belching smoke, and for a horrible moment it looked eerily like Tolkien’s Dark Tower of Barad-dûr.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometime last year, I got a phone call from a reporter from the Huffington Post who was working on a piece that was obviously intended to be a hatchet job directed at the pro-life movement. She quizzed me intensely on the alt-right and abortion, and seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed…
By Jonathon Van Maren April 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On March 21, the famously angry atheist Richard Dawkins tweeted out a report from the Guardian with a reaction that made me do a double take: “Before we rejoice at the death throes of the relatively benign Christian religion, let’s not forget Hilaire Belloc’s menacing rhyme: ‘Always keep…
By Jonathon Van Maren In all the noise and babble surrounding the slow and steady implosion of Europe, one clear voice consistently cuts through the din: that of Douglas Murray, who writes regularly for the Spectator as well as publications like the National Review, and as of late has appeared on stage as part of…
By Jonathon Van Maren Knighted in 2016 for “services to philosophy, teaching, and public education,” there is perhaps no academic so articulate and so fierce in his defence of Western civilization as Sir Roger Scruton. A graduate of Cambridge, anti-Communist Cold Warrior, professor in the Humanities Research Institute at Buckingham University, and author of over…