David Warren (columnist)

David Warren is a Canadian newspaper columnist, who writes for the "Ottawa Citizen" as well as the "Western Standard".

Personal life

According to autobiographical information provided on his website, Warren is a Canadian of Anglo-Celtic origins. He left school after tenth grade and pursued self-directed studies and travels in Asia in the early 1970s. He has two sons, one born with Down syndrome.

Writings

Warren writes two international-affairs columns and a general essay per week for the "Ottawa Citizen", which he joined in late 1996. His writings on international affairs are strongly supportive of the war in Iraq and U.S. president George W. Bush. He often writes about the West's response to Islamic terrorism and Islam in general. He has stated that several years spent as an elementary school student at an international school in Pakistan in the 1960s give him some insight into Islam.

Warren is a recent convert to Roman Catholicism and a social conservative; his columns frequently discuss issues of social policy, such as Canada's endorsement of same-sex marriage. He has expressed qualified support for the Conservative Party of Canada [http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=561] . Warren has written a series of columns in The Ottawa Citizen contesting the theory of evolution. He has argued that Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudian psychology are self-referential and the root of many social problems in the modern world.

Warren was founder and editor of "The Idler", a conservative Canadian magazine that existed from 1984 to 1993.

External links

* [http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/ David Warren Online]
* [http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/davidwarren.html David Warren at the "Ottawa Citizen"]