Harper Lee, the famously private author of one of the 20th Century’s greatest books “To Kill A Mockingbird,” let only a few people into her secret world. Dr. Wayne Flynt was one of those friends, and he recently published a book titled “Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee.” He joined Jonathon Van Maren to…
By Jonathon Van Maren I wrote yesterday that one of the more frustrating aspects of the ongoing rediscovery of sexual ethics by the secular progressives in response to Mr. Trump’s crude overindulgence in the fruits of the Sexual Revolution was the blatant nature of the hypocrisy. The champions of pornography, alternative sexual lifestyles, crude public…
By Jonathon Van Maren It may be one of the most frequently asked questions in conservative circles in this 2016 election cycle: Who is the alt-right? Who are these more-or-less previously unheard of Internet firebrands who skitter from Twitter to Internet comment sections throwing rhetorical Molotov cocktails, generating memes celebrating the orange Donald Trump as…
In 1961, a photo of James Zwerg’s battered face went around the world after he was severely beaten when the Freedom Rides arrived in Montgomery, Alabama on their crusade to end segregation. This Civil Rights hero joins Jonathon Van Maren to tell his story.
Jonathon talks to Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation about #BlackLivesMatter, racism, the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, and abortion.
Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems’ book Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement fundamentally changed the way we think about how the Civil Rights Movement began. She joined Jonathon to talk about her most recent book on the murder of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement.
When the genocide began in Rwanda in 1994, most foreigners fled the country. Missionary Carl Wilkens was the only American who refused to leave the country, remaining in Rwanda for the entire duration of the genocide. He joined Jonathon to talk about what he saw.
Ruby Bridges was one of the first African-American children to attend a newly integrated school in the Deep South at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Facing down a daily gauntlet of angry racists, protected by federal marshals, Ruby experienced school like few others ever have. She joined Jonathon to share her story.