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 2003 war in Iraq and U.S. president George W. Bush. He often writes about the West's response to Islamic [...] 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-[...] marriage. He has expressed qualified support for the Conservative Party of Canada1. Warren subscribes to creationist beliefs, having written a series of columns in the Ottawa citizen countering 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.