By Jonathon Van Maren If you just read the news, you would think that Canada is an enormously progressive place, filled with cheery lefties who take their toddlers to Pride to twerk with the leather dudes, free abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy for whoever wants one, and universal disdain for the dark, evil…
By Jonathon Van Maren To many outsiders looking in, today’s March for Life in Washington, D.C. seems to be a strange and foreign event. Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them young, from every walk of life, faith background, and corner of the country, will show up in the nation’s capital during one of…
By Jonathon Van Maren Bill Maher is the rarest breed of liberal commentator: One who still has the capacity to surprise me by presenting and defending a point of view that is very out of vogue with the progressive set. He has noted his discomfort with late-term abortion, scoffed at the idea of biological males competing against females…
By Jonathon Van Maren INTRODUCTION As the crisp notes of the Last Post sounded across the cenotaph and the crowds gathered for the Remembrance Day Ceremony shifted almost in unison, I studied the clump of medal-laden military men sitting and standing near the row of wreaths. Only one was old enough to be a veteran…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Conservative Party leadership race is heating up, which means that most contenders are falling all over themselves to persuade people who do not vote Conservative to support them. Pierre Poilievre, known for his pit-bull parliamentary performances, hastened to distance himself from his social conservative record by informing the media that…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past decade or so, the Canadian government has increasingly imposed the woke standards of progressive radicals on the various wings of the military. As I noted back in 2016 after a member of the Canadian navy leaked his mandatory diversity training curriculum to me, men and women who signed…
By Jonathon Van Maren On the day that Communist China formally ended the One Child Policy in 2015, it announced that the draconian law—launched in 1979 and written into the country’s constitution in 1982—had made China more powerful, the world more peaceful, and the people more prosperous. There was no mention of the global uproar…
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, I speak with Dr. Charles Murray about why America has fallen apart and what we need to do about it. Dr. Murray first became well known in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, a piece which is credited with being the intellectual foundation for the Welfare…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past few months, left-wing blogs and publications have rediscovered some of the great classics in English literature—especially those penned by a man named Eric Blair, better known to those of us who had to read his works in high school as George Orwell. With the rise of Trump, bloggers…
By Jonathon Van Maren If you were told that the New York Times would be publishing a piece condemning a recent performance by one of the hosts of The View, you might think that a rebuke of Joy Behar’s recent decision to approvingly quote white nationalist Richard Spencer was forthcoming. But, unsurprisingly, you would be wrong. Shamira…