Barbara Kay

Barbara Kay is a columnist for the National Post. Her previous Quillette articles include Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals.

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The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes

The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them

Barbara Kay

14 Sep 2022 · 12 min read

Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later

North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.

Barbara Kay

21 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry

Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence.

Barbara Kay

19 May 2020 · 6 min read

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.

Barbara Kay

14 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?

The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.

Barbara Kay

23 Nov 2018 · 15 min read

An Academic Mobbing at McGill

In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.

Barbara Kay

17 Oct 2018 · 24 min read