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The Collapse of Trans Identification

Jonathon Van Maren

After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrumโ€”in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school...

The Inkling Who Fought Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Earlier this autumn, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford the day before I delivered two lectures at the national conference for the Society for the Protection of Unborn...

As Long as Youโ€™re Living

Jonathon Van Maren

I first heard Robert Munsch in second grade. Our teacher read his 1986 classic Love You Forever to our class, and like almost everyone who heard the story as...

The Fight to Stop Euthanasia for Mental Illness

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottleโ€™s worth of pills in a public bathroom. His depression had become unbearable. Thankfully, he failed, and after weeks...

The Shifting Narrative Around Pornography

Jonathon Van Maren

There has been a fundamental shift in the public debate on pornography over the past decade. In 2017, I took the affirmative side in a radio debate with a...

Andrew Tate and Conservative Hypocrisy

Jonathon Van Maren

On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romaniaโ€™s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) lifted their two-year travel ban due to outstanding charges...

IVF Is Not Pro-Family

Jonathon Van Maren

Donald Trump made good on his promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) on February 18, signing an executive order that โ€œdirects policy recommendations to protect IVF...

Americaโ€™s Cross-Border Abortion War

Jonathon Van Maren

The United States has been deeply divided on abortion for decades, but since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, those divides have deepened as differing legal regimes emerge across...

An Unmerry Hitchmas

Jonathon Van Maren

On December 14, Atheism UK and the Origins Project Foundation hosted a โ€œMerry Hitchmasโ€ event at the Royal Geographical Society in London to commemorate the life of atheist journalist...

James Herriotโ€™s Son Condemns Starmerโ€™s Assault on Farms

Jonathon Van Maren

If James Herriot was alive now, he would be horrified by what this prime minister is doing. Iโ€™m speaking for him, really,โ€ Jim Wight told me. As the son...

Trump Responds to Pro-Life Pressure

Jonathon Van Maren

Donald J. Trumpโ€™s ongoing betrayal of the pro-life movement has ignited a fierce debate on the right. While some pro-life leaders are calling on the Trump-Vance campaign to reverse...

Is the Republican Party Becoming Pro-Choice?

Jonathon Van Maren

The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for the first time in forty years, this platform does not include support...

The GOP Changes Its Tune on Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2017, Kellyanne Conway took the stage at the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., to tell the gathered crowd of thousands that she was โ€œa mother, a...

What I Saw At Corrie Ten Boomโ€™s Hiding Place

Jonathon Van Maren

The Watchmaker’s Daughter:The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boomby larry loftis william morrow, 384 pages, $16.49  Eighty years ago, on February 28, 1944, the Nazis...

Farewell to a Pro-Life Hero

Jonathon Van Maren

Florida’s most notorious abortion clinic is located at 1103 Lucerne Terrace in downtown Orlando. On the sidewalk directly in front of this clinic, the Orlando Womenโ€™s Center, there are...