By Jonathon Van Maren As I noted in my review of Tucker Carlson’s latest book Ship of Fools, the Republican coalition of social conservatives and Big Business has definitively collapsed, with the corporations wrapping themselves in the rainbow flag and throwing their lot in with the Left. The latest evidence of this is a new…
By Jonathon Van Maren Sometime last year, I got a phone call from a reporter from the Huffington Post who was working on a piece that was obviously intended to be a hatchet job directed at the pro-life movement. She quizzed me intensely on the alt-right and abortion, and seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed…
By Jonathon Van Maren Over the past couple of weeks, Tucker Carlson has ignited a firestorm within the American conservative movement by not only questioning the infallibility of the free market, but also by highlighting an inconvenient fact: Sometimes, economic pressures hurt families, and perhaps it is time for conservatives to re-examine some of our…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ever since Tucker Carlson’s monologue on the American elites last week, the conservative movement has been huffing and puffing, with everyone who is anyone scrambling to get out a column-length rebuttal to Carlson’s so-called “populism.” Taking a gander at his speech, it isn’t hard to see why they’re upset. He starts…
By Jonathon Van Maren For the past couple of weeks, FOX News host Tucker Carlson has been on the interview circuit, promoting his book Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. The Republican Party, he has noted, must become the party of the middle class—in other…
By Jonathon Van Maren April 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Whenever I see a media figure passionately defend the pro-life position, I always get curious. It’s not surprising that there are pro-life people in the media, of course, especially on the right side of the spectrum. But when someone chooses to dedicate his time and energy…