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.
The Natives are Getting Restless:<br>How Elitist Hypocrisy is Giving Rise to Populist Revolt

The Natives are Getting Restless:<br>How Elitist Hypocrisy is Giving Rise to Populist Revolt

The policies that have provoked these protests differ, but there is a common conviction driving the backlash: the elites imposing these agendas do not and will not suffer the consequences of their own policies.

September 16, 2022
The Queering of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Queering of J.R.R. Tolkien

If these academics are believed, every closet in Middle Earth is absolutely stuffed with creatures eager to launch Pride Parades in Mordor and Drag Queen Story Hour in the Shire. This work is not simply academic navel-gazing—activists have petitioned Amazon to include LGBT characters in the new small screen adaption of Tolkien’s work.

August 17, 2022
How (and Why) One Woman is Taking on the Sexual Revolution

How (and Why) One Woman is Taking on the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry is both predicting and calling for a counter-revolution, likely led by the “Gen Z women who have experienced the worst of it.”

August 5, 2022
Spain: Whispers from the Past

Spain: Whispers from the Past

The playwright Federico Garcia Lorca once wrote that in Spain, “the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country.” He may be right.

July 26, 2022
How the Left Helped to Overturn Roe v. Wade

How the Left Helped to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Progressives declared war on Trump on live TV. Trump was watching. Regardless of his ideological promiscuity, the die was cast: abortion activists were his enemies. They paid dearly for the mistake.

July 21, 2022
The Death of Roe v. Wade

The Death of Roe v. Wade

How is it that the greatest of all democracies has been transfixed by abortion politics for decades? The answer is simple and unpopular: It is because there is still a battle being waged for the soul of America.

June 30, 2022
The Architects of the Sexual Revolution Were ‘Groomers’

The Architects of the Sexual Revolution Were ‘Groomers’

Many of the architects of the sexual revolution made their case for the abuse of children openly, and they were embraced by the elites, lionized by the press, and heralded as courageous thinkers.

June 17, 2022
The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with <b>N.S. Lyons</b>

The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with <b>N.S. Lyons</b>

“I think conspiracy theories are proliferating because we can all feel the ground shifting under our feet but have no easy way to understand and make sense of that feeling of chaos.”—N.S. Lyons

Le Chambon

Le Chambon

It is the ordinary nature of their goodness that makes the story of Le Chambon such a miracle. It was weathered men and women with brittle hands, shiny with callouses from backbreaking work, hard as oak and often gnarled with age, who did these things.

Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

I have thought since her first run that Dr. Leslyn Lewis is a breath of fresh air—the outsider candidate that the Ottawa bubble and the Conservative Party needs. The Harper-clones have been at the top for a long time, but it is past time for a facelift.

Communist Necrocracies

Communist Necrocracies

It is an irony that the regimes of godless Communists and imperial thugs must preserve the corpses of their revolutionary leaders, made incorruptible by enormous amounts of money, for their subjects to worship.

April 26, 2022
Where Will You Draw Your Line? An Interview with <b>Paul Kingsnorth</b>

Where Will You Draw Your Line? An Interview with <b>Paul Kingsnorth</b>

INTERVIEW Many have noted that the COVID-19 pandemic did not make things worse so much as simply accelerate existing trends.

April 10, 2022