By Jonathon Van Maren There is a certain irony to the fact that several lawyers with the Law Society of Ontario are raising the alarm—after an organization called StopSOP managed to elect a slate of directors opposed to the Ontario Law Society’s Statement of Principles. This statement of principles would have compelled speech, requiring lawyers…
Some of you have been asking me if The Bridgehead podcast has been discontinued since the launch of The Van Maren Show on LifeSiteNews. The answer is no–I’ve been working on a relaunch, The Culture Wars, for some time. The goal is to have a longer-form podcast where I get into the issues facing us…
By Jonathon Van Maren Just around the corner from the copy shop in Wageningen where I was printing my notes for a pro-life presentation last month, I spotted a plaque on the side of a red brick hotel with white and yellow striped awnings crouching over the windows. It was here at Hotel de Wereld…
By Jonathon Van Maren Those of us who see transgenderism as a dangerous ideology often face questions from those who see it as simply another manifestation of our culture’s embrace of personal bodily autonomy, even if they do find it somewhat strange. It is true, they say, that some men feel like they are women…
By Jonathon Van Maren The transgender policies currently roiling high schools across the United States are resulting in some strange skirmishes lately. Each of these skirmishes reveal just how far we have strayed from the common-sense instincts that once would have been taken for granted, and how much the ideologies percolating down through the culture…
By Jonathon Van Maren Gabby Skwarko, the 23-year-old student who attacked Katie Somers and Blaise Alleyne of Toronto Against Abortion on the campus of Ryerson University last October, pleaded guilty to assault in court yesterday. Skwarko, who was a member of the abortion rights group the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective, contributed to a rash of…
By Jonathon Van Maren Nothing irritates progressive commentators quite so much as watching nations reject the failed experiment of the Sexual Revolution. Despite the fact that the so-called sexual liberty we enjoy in the West has ravaged families, spawned a rarely-reported on epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, and gutted the institution of marriage—all while failing…
By Jonathon Van Maren On September 26, 2009, Abby Johnson was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. Although she was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic and had worked in the abortion industry for nearly a decade, she had never actually witnessed what takes place during an abortion procedure. She stared, transfixed with…
By Jonathon Van Maren In his short but essential book Eugenics and Other Evils, G.K. Chesterton pinpointed with precision the preferred tactic of progressives. “Most Eugenists are Euphemists,” he wrote. “I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however…
