By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve said often that Dr. Anthony Esolen is one of the greatest writers of our time, especially on the culture wars that plague us. His 2017 book Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture was easily the best book on that subject in years, and it is simply true that Esolen…
By Jonathon Van Maren Carmel Nisha Pius Franco has a passion: She wants the world to know about Indian babies who are being killed by abortion by their tens of millions, and she wants people everywhere to know that Western governments are funding the slaughter. She manages a pro-life organization in India called UYIRKKURAL (meaning…
By Jonathon Van Maren The poster is so bizarre and offensive that when I first spotted it on social media, I was pretty sure it must be fake. It featured a black high-heeled shoe, a stick of red lipstick, and the ominous question: “Would you give up this?” and then beneath the high heel and…
It is easy to get depressed about the state of the culture–but 2018 has brought a lot of really great news, as well. Jonathon Van Maren reviews some of the most significant culture war victories of the past six months, from South America to Australia to the United States.
And here is the full interview, for those who are interested:
By Jonathon Van Maren September 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Since thousands of pro-lifers wielding blue kerchiefs recently showed up on the streets of Argentina to protest plans to legalize abortion, a “Light Blue Wave” has been spreading across South America and Latin America. Over 20,000 marched in Guatemala City earlier this month, forcing the government to drop…
By Jonathon Van Maren The just-released Netflix documentary Reversing Roe begins with flashing images set to gripping voice-overs from both sides of the abortion debate: A pro-lifer describing how “the baby is ripped limb from limb while the heart is still beating”–and the tearful voice of a woman pleading with legislators to leave the difficult…
By Jonathon Van Maren The Left has a way of creating free speech warriors unintentionally, and Lindsay Shepherd, a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, is no exception. In November of 2017, she showed her communications class several clips of a debate between Dr. Jordan Peterson and several others on the issue of compelled speech…
By Jonathon Van Maren One thing that I find hard to get used to is the utter solemnity with which the media treats the most absurd claims. Headlines announce that some man is pregnant, when the pregnant person is quite obviously a woman. News stories tell us that a woman has raped several other women…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Chapter 2 of my 2016 book The Culture War, I examined the pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases that is currently sweeping North America—albeit unnoticed and unremarked on by most: The STD epidemic makes headlines occasionally, but not often—and certainly not in proportion to the prevalence of these diseases or the…