Some good news for a change: According to Reuters, Hungary’s attempts to improve their birthrate and strengthen families (I reported on a precipitous decline in their abortion rate earlier this year) is actually working quite well. The Hungarian government is combatting family breakdown through the budget: A new Hungarian government scheme to promote marriage and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Nothing irritates progressive commentators quite so much as watching nations reject the failed experiment of the Sexual Revolution. Despite the fact that the so-called sexual liberty we enjoy in the West has ravaged families, spawned a rarely-reported on epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, and gutted the institution of marriage—all while failing…
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 A few updates from the frontlines of the culture wars around the world: **** Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary continues to attract the ire of progressives. Earlier this year, his government passed a “Stop Soros” package to blunt the influence of Soros cash, and now they are insisting that state-funded…
By Jonathon Van Maren Most Canadians do not follow European politics very closely, and so nobody thought much of it when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted out his congratulations to Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who had just secured a third consecutive mandate and a two-thirds majority for his Fidesz party. Canada’s left-leaning…
By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone who is listening to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban lately is probably getting the distinct feeling that he has been reading and re-reading Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. Over and over again, Orban is referencing the “Islamisation” of Europe, a term that…