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.
81 Years After V-E Day: Defend the Great Victors—but Don’t Let Their Triumph Become Our Replacement Religion

81 Years After V-E Day: Defend the Great Victors—but Don’t Let Their Triumph Become Our Replacement Religion

We must honor the heroes who defeated Hitler without letting their victory harden into a secular myth turning ‘Nazi’ into the catch-all for evil.

Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime

Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime

Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.

The Hypocrisy of Progressive Europe

The Hypocrisy of Progressive Europe

For progressives, ‘liberalism’ now means ‘the compelled acceptance and legal implementation of LGBT ideology.’ To oppose it, conversely, is thus ‘illiberalism.’

April 22, 2026
Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

A civilization without children does not have a future. A civilization that kills its own children does not deserve one.

April 16, 2026
Freya India: “The only authority left is the market, companies, and industries”

Freya India: “The only authority left is the market, companies, and industries”

Freya India, like millions of her generation, was exposed to hardcore pornography before she was exposed to Christianity. Like millions of others, she grew up in a culture that offered her everything but her civilizational inheritance.

April 12, 2026
Maltese Court Acquits Christian Accused of Violating ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

Maltese Court Acquits Christian Accused of Violating ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

The prosecution of Matthew Grech highlights activists’ aim with these bans: to silence Christians, to make it illegal to call LGBT ideology a sin, and to end religious freedom.

March 28, 2026
Finnish Supreme Court Convicts Päivi Räsänen of “Hate Speech”

Finnish Supreme Court Convicts Päivi Räsänen of “Hate Speech”

The MP was found “criminally liable” for a 22-year-old pamphlet stating the biblical views on homosexuality.

March 26, 2026
A Defeat for Suicide Campaigners Is a Victory for the Vulnerable

A Defeat for Suicide Campaigners Is a Victory for the Vulnerable

The rejection of the Scottish assisted suicide bill comes after cautionary tales from Canada, which is on track for 100,000 euthanasia deaths by this summer.

March 19, 2026
<em>Folktales</em>: Bringing Digital Natives Back to Reality

<em>Folktales</em>: Bringing Digital Natives Back to Reality

Technology has spun a web around us so all-encompassing that for many young people, a campfire in a snowy forest feels like a different world.

March 14, 2026
Is It Still Legal To Criticize Gender Ideology in Canada?

Is It Still Legal To Criticize Gender Ideology in Canada?

After a British Columbia pensioner is fined $750,000 for saying there are only two sexes, British comedian John Cleese cancels his tour dates.

March 5, 2026
Munich Meltdown: Hillary Clinton Clashes With Czech Leader Over ‘Woke’ Politics

Munich Meltdown: Hillary Clinton Clashes With Czech Leader Over ‘Woke’ Politics

The truth that angered Clinton in Munich last week is that the revolution she champions is destroying the West at home and weakening the West abroad.

February 17, 2026
Pronoun Priority Over Safety: Trans Ideology’s Role in Canada Shooting

Pronoun Priority Over Safety: Trans Ideology’s Role in Canada Shooting

Were eight people murdered by a mentally ill teenage boy suffering from fundamental delusions? Or was the killer a young woman? Just a few years ago, the question would have struck Canadians as absurd.

February 12, 2026