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.
In Defense of Life and Family: An Interview with <b>Dr. Massimo Gandolfini</b>

In Defense of Life and Family: An Interview with <b>Dr. Massimo Gandolfini</b>

“My ‘North Star’ is certainly the Christian and Catholic culture, with the huge cultural output that it has produced.” — Dr. Massimo Gandolfini

February 1, 2022
Malcolm Muggeridge, Lifelong Seeker

Malcolm Muggeridge, Lifelong Seeker

Malcolm Muggeridge’s late discovery of Christianity is an example for today’s conservative intellectuals.

January 28, 2022
Transgender Backlash

Transgender Backlash

Trans activists wield an enormous amount of cultural power, and their ideology is far from discredited in the eyes of progressive politicians, delusional academics, and their media microphones. Yet, from the British Isles to the Continent to the Nordic nations, people are beginning to wake up.

January 22, 2022
How to Be a Counter-Revolutionary

How to Be a Counter-Revolutionary

The future does not belong to the champions of sterile sex and dumpsters filled with dead babies. Rather, it belongs to those who will fight for love, self-sacrifice, and the children of the next generation.

January 17, 2022
Men of Flesh, Blood, and Bone: An Interview with <b>Edoardo Albert</b>

Men of Flesh, Blood, and Bone: An Interview with <b>Edoardo Albert</b>

Edoardo Albert has done a magnificent job of giving us men of flesh, blood, and bone. The Northumbrian Thrones trilogy is a historical and literary achievement.

January 11, 2022
Roe’s Reckoning: America’s Abortion Laws Face Judgement

Roe’s Reckoning: America’s Abortion Laws Face Judgement

With the case ‘Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,’ pro-life activists are holding their breath and daring to hope that a post-Roe America may be within reach.

January 3, 2022
Silent Night: The Christmas Truce of 1914

Silent Night: The Christmas Truce of 1914

On a single silent night when all was still and all was bright, Christian Germans and Christian Brits sang together and then climbed out of their trenches to greet each other—and celebrate the birth of Christ.

December 24, 2021
Populism and the Defence of Norms

Populism and the Defence of Norms

Progressives believe that the right-wing populists must be destroyed. Not because populists are smashing norms; it is because they are, in many cases, defending the norms that progressives are busy dismantling.

November 21, 2021
Vladimir Putin and Orthodoxy: A True Believer or Deceptive Opportunist?

Vladimir Putin and Orthodoxy: A True Believer or Deceptive Opportunist?

In Putin’s words, one can see the fusion, in his mind, of the roles of the Church and the state. I asked a number of Orthodox clergy as well as several Russian journalists what they thought Putin actually believed, and their answers amounted to a collective shrug.

November 2, 2021
The Slow-Motion Genocide of Nigeria’s Christians

The Slow-Motion Genocide of Nigeria’s Christians

Christians are being driven out of their communities, particularly in Nigeria’s north and middle belt, bit by bit, and many of the villages are being abandoned. This is what has been called a “slow-motion genocide.”

October 13, 2021
The Last Dregs of Christendom: An Interview with <b>Paul Kingsnorth</b>

The Last Dregs of Christendom: An Interview with <b>Paul Kingsnorth</b>

“We’re in either a collapse or a massive transformation culturally in the West,” Paul Kingsnorth tells me cheerfully from his

August 30, 2021
Immigration and Women’s Rights: An Interview with <b>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</b>

Immigration and Women’s Rights: An Interview with <b>Ayaan Hirsi Ali</b>

In some ways, “Prey” is the most inflammatory of Hirsi Ali’s books. Her thesis is a straightforward one: the mass migration of men from misogynist Muslim cultures is a threat to the hard-won rights of women in Europe.

August 16, 2021