Jonathon Van Maren is a writer for europeanconservative.com based in Canada. He has written for First Things, National Review, The American Conservative, and his latest book is Prairie Lion: The Life & Times of Ted Byfield.
Virtue and Defiance Can Stir Even the Darkest Ideologues

Virtue and Defiance Can Stir Even the Darkest Ideologues

The martyred young risked and ultimately accepted death to defend a culture that they believed was worth the sacrifice.

December 6, 2025
The LGBT Movement Thinks It Owns Europe

The LGBT Movement Thinks It Owns Europe

The EU elites ludicrously claim that any opposition to the LGBT agenda constitutes alignment with Moscow, as if the universal, millennia-old belief in natural marriage is somehow Russian.

December 3, 2025
When Did Double Suicides Become Trendy?

When Did Double Suicides Become Trendy?

The strategy is obvious: to propagandize the public into accepting, if not celebrating, our “new normal” in which elderly couples are put down like household pets.

November 24, 2025
When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy

When the ‘Pastor’ Marries Four Men: Germany’s Truce with Polygamy

How long until progressive polyamorists and Islamist polygamists align?

November 11, 2025
UK Becomes First Western Country To Ban (Some) Porn

UK Becomes First Western Country To Ban (Some) Porn

This is the first legislation that specifically criminalizes a form of pornography on the basis that, even if it is ‘consensual,’ it harms society.

November 10, 2025
The Last Trial of Päivi Räsänen

The Last Trial of Päivi Räsänen

“Whatever the outcome of this trial is, my conscience is clear, and my faith is firm,” the Finnish parliamentarian emphasized.

October 31, 2025
Brazil Launches AI Platform To Identify and Prosecute Critics of LGBT Ideology

Brazil Launches AI Platform To Identify and Prosecute Critics of LGBT Ideology

The persecution of ordinary citizens on behalf of the LGBT movement will be funded by the state—that is, by the taxpayers being targeted.

October 23, 2025
Dave Smith Gets His Comeuppance

Dave Smith Gets His Comeuppance

The crowd Smith runs with is stacked with crazed conspiracy theorists, self-confessed Nazi apologists, Hitler defenders, and Holocaust deniers.

October 21, 2025
The Inevitability of Bonnie Blue

The Inevitability of Bonnie Blue

Even in our porn-soaked, sex-crazed culture, there are still sideshows so extreme that our hardened cultural conscience can flicker with the recognition that this is wrong. Why?

October 19, 2025
The Racist Anti-White Smearing of Jane Austen

The Racist Anti-White Smearing of Jane Austen

If you want stories about non-white characters, perhaps you might choose a story that wasn’t written and set during a period in which over 99% of England’s population was white.

October 9, 2025
The Bible on Trial: Päivi Räsänen Heads to the Supreme Court

The Bible on Trial: Päivi Räsänen Heads to the Supreme Court

“It is a trial to determine if we are still allowed to agree in public with the Bible.”

September 28, 2025
“I Forgive Him”

“I Forgive Him”

Millions of Americans see Christian marriage as oppressive and Christianity as hateful. Yet when an LGBT extremist murdered one of the nation’s most prominent Christians, the widow responded not with hatred—but with forgiveness.

September 22, 2025