Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner joins Jonathon Van Maren for a discussion about Confederate statues, the Civil War, and what the past can teach us about the present in these troubled times.
By Jonathon Van Maren November 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Eight months ago, the pro-life organization Live Action uploaded a three-minute video clip of a young woman giving an extraordinarily powerful testimony about being raped and becoming pregnant. Jennifer Christie explained to the Iowa legislature that she’d been brutally raped while on a business trip, her bruised body flung…
By Jonathon Van Maren On Facebook, Roxanne Van Herk of Alberta posted a powerful rebuke to those who have been cheering the NDP attacks on private Christians schools—and dismantles the arguments being made in favor of shutting down the private schools that still hold to the principles they were created to promote: News came today…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – If you have been wondering just how far the media will go in accepting the ludicrous premises of the transgender movement, consider this recent headline from Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star: “Transgender woman gets 18-month sentence for sexually assaulting daughter.” You could be forgiven for initially thinking, upon…
By Jonathon Van Maren Alberta Education Minister David Eggen has taken the next step in his war against religious schools that refuse to buckle and accept his ideology on sexuality: He has now stated definitively that the provincial government will be pulling funding from twenty-eight private schools by next fall if they stand firm in…
By Jonathon Van Maren Alberta’s radically left-wing government continues to implement their social revolution at warp speed—it is obvious that Premier Rachel Notley, Education Minister David Eggen, and the rest of the NDP crew are determined to transform the prairie province to the greatest extent possible prior to their likely defeat by Jason Kenney’s United…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometimes stories can be simultaneously encouraging and depressing, and the story of a student politician at Berkeley, Isabella Chow, is one such story. An articulate, and compassionate young woman with a skill for speaking the truth in love, she has nevertheless become the latest target of the LGBT activists who claim…
By Jonathon Van Maren November 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In Iceland, people with Down Syndrome have been virtually wiped out by abortion. In Denmark, people with Down syndrome also face extinction. In the United Kingdom, 90% of parents who discover that their pre-born child has Down syndrome opt to have the baby aborted. In the…
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 Shortly after gay marriage was legalized in the US by the Supreme Court, one major LGBT activist and donor had an announcement to make about the future plans of the movement: It was time to “punish the wicked,” he said. The “wicked,” by the way, is now shorthand for “those who…