Jonathon Van Maren

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

The World Shifting Beneath Our Feet: An Interview with N.S. Lyons

“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 Paul Kingsnorth

INTERVIEW Many have noted that the COVID-19 pandemic did not make things worse so much as simply accelerate existing trends. You’ve been writing about what you call ‘the Machine’ for years—would

April 10, 2022
The Ghosts of the Armenian Genocide Still Haunt Modern Turkey

The Ghosts of the Armenian Genocide Still Haunt Modern Turkey

“We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else.” With the soldiers neutralized and massacres and deportations in progress, it was time for a decapitation strike to eliminate the Armenian leadership with a single blow.

March 30, 2022
Faith and Patriotism in a Besieged Kyiv

Faith and Patriotism in a Besieged Kyiv

Animated by faith and patriotism and buoyed by an unkillable sense of humor, Ukrainians are thus far shocking the world by their steadfastness in the face of Russian aggression.

March 17, 2022
Christopher Hitchens: Disbelief—but Not as We Know It

Christopher Hitchens: Disbelief—but Not as We Know It

“Christopher was quite capable of respecting Christians. If you really believed it and were willing to defend the challenges thrown up against it, he respected that and he liked it.”

March 7, 2022
Winston Churchill: A Surprising Champion of Christian Heritage

Winston Churchill: A Surprising Champion of Christian Heritage

Churchill was remarkably clear-eyed about the dangers of the soulless and secular statism promoted by everyone from the Bloomsbury elites to the twin barbarisms of Bolshevism and Nazism.

March 2, 2022
An Untold Tragedy: Douglas Gresham and C.S. Lewis’s Final Years

An Untold Tragedy: Douglas Gresham and C.S. Lewis’s Final Years

Douglas Gresham vividly remembers the frosty December day he met his stepfather, the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, and later life.

February 13, 2022
Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground Over Pronouns

Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground Over Pronouns

Language is the first domino in the war over reality—and pronouns have nothing to do with politeness and everything to do with ideological submission.

February 7, 2022
The Courage of Her Convictions: An Interview with <b>Päivi Räsänen</b>

The Courage of Her Convictions: An Interview with Päivi Räsänen

“I never thought that citing the Bible and agreeing with it could be criminal.” — Päivi Räsänen

February 4, 2022