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.
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
Scion of the French Right: An Interview with <b>Marion Maréchal</b>

Scion of the French Right: An Interview with <b>Marion Maréchal</b>

Marion Maréchal has captured the attention of conservatives not just in France but around the world. She has an extraordinary talent for articulating where both the right and the left have gone wrong—and how they have both betrayed the people and the common good.

August 1, 2020
Misunderstanding Bannon

Misunderstanding Bannon

Unlike other ‘Bannon-watchers’—many of who seem unable to resist casting him as a Rasputin-like figure, while being simultaneously repulsed and fascinated by his insistence on speaking in symbolic and often apocalyptic terms—Teitelbaum approaches his subject from an unlikely angle.

June 19, 2020
Scion of the French Right

Scion of the French Right

Marion Maréchal deserves our attention.