By Jonathon Van Maren This is Part II of my review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Part I can be found here. One of the reasons I found Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option so fascinating is that the more I read, the more his proposal sounded precisely…
By Jonathon Van Maren The release of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation last month marks the arrival of a book hotly debated in Christian circles since long before its publication. Rod Dreher, the author of wonderful books such as The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern…
By Jonathon Van Maren While there are many ironies in the realm of politics that provoke painful chuckles from those of us who follow them, there is perhaps none so galling as the renewed attacks on Christian schools by the most repugnant member of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s cabinet, Education Minister David Eggen. In the…
By Jonathon Van Maren Louis C.K. is crude, misogynist, and profane. While none of those things are particularly unusual for a comedian, Louis C.K. generally attempts to take things to the next level with humor so dark and nihilist that many of his listeners cringe while they laugh. In some ways, he’s the anti-hero who…
By Jonathon Van Maren Society at large continues to grapple with the fact that the wide-scale pornification of our culture is coming at a brutally high cost—especially to girls and women. Alabama, for example, is taking a look at legislative ways of addressing the problem: When Alabama lawmakers return to the Capitol next week they…
It’s been awhile since I wrote a “State of the Culture” update, because I’ve been keeping up with a lot of the culture news by writing columns on individual issues. But the news is coming in a bit of a torrent these days, so I’ll be writing a few more of them lately. **** The…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written a few columns on the dangerous ideologies of the alt-right, culminating with a rather long one over at LifeSiteNews on Friday. Several of the alt-righters have been very irritated by this, and a fellow calling himself “Hunter Wallace”—his real name is Bradley Griffin—wrote…
Rod Dreher, author of The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, How Dante Saved My Life, and now The Benedict Option, joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss how Christians are to respond to a post-Christian age. Dreher blogs daily over at the American Conservative, discussing the challenges Christians face in a secular age.
JJ McCullough is an editorial cartoonist and columnist, writing regularly for Loonie Politics and the Washington Post, as well as publishing recent essays in publications such as the National Review. He joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss the future of conservatism in North America.
By Jonathon Van Maren A couple of weeks ago, I attended a public lecture by Dr. Jordan Peterson at the University of Western Ontario. For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Peterson has found himself the target of transgender activists, some of whom actually claim that his refusal to use recently-invented “transgender pronouns” constituted…