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 Most Canadians do not follow European politics very closely, and so nobody thought much of it when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted out his congratulations to Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who had just secured a third consecutive mandate and a two-thirds majority for his Fidesz party. Canada’s left-leaning…
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…