Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay is a Quillette editor, podcaster, and advisor to The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. His books include Among the Truthers, Legacy, Panics & Persecutions, and Magic in the Dark.

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Kathleen Stock is a middle-aged white woman with short, grey hair. In the background, female symbols and board game pieces.

Kathleen Stock: Right on Gender, Wrong on Board Games

With the holiday gaming season almost upon us, now is a good time to dispel some of the widely embraced misconceptions that inform her analysis.

Jonathan Kay

13 Dec 2024 · 10 min read

No Good Deed

In which an unsuspecting Quillette editor strolls Dublin’s historic streets, only to become ensnared in an unwholesome nocturnal intrigue.

Jonathan Kay

10 Dec 2024 · 9 min read

Architectural drawing showing a very modern looking structure against a sunset sky.

Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

Jonathan Kay

29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read

Volleyball players. In the centre, a tall, masculine looking person in San José team kit.

College Volleyball’s Spartan Meltdown

In a scathing Title IX Complaint obtained by Quillette, a San José State University women’s volleyball coach explains how her school’s aggressively enforced transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes.

Jonathan Kay

1 Nov 2024 · 23 min read

The New York Times building in Manhattan

When Will The New York Times Correct Its Flawed Reporting on ‘Unmarked Graves’?

The same reporter who helped spark Canada’s 2021 social panic has published a new article walking back his original errors—but those mistakes remain uncorrected on the Times’ website.

Jonathan Kay

20 Sep 2024 · 8 min read

Red child's dress on a wooden cross at night. Kamloops school lit up in red in the background.

Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court

When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry.

Jonathan Kay

20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read

Detail from cover of Summer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper. Warriors on horseback, illustration.

When Germany Waged War on Itself

In a forthcoming book, Lyndal Roper argues that the German Peasants’ War of 1524–25 was a missed opportunity to enshrine a Christian theology centred on equality and brotherhood.

Jonathan Kay

18 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

Podcast #251: Tracing the Rise of Radicalised Anti-Zionism on American Campuses

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Paul Berman about the lingering influence of ‘Black Power’ advocate Stokely Carmichael, who once infamously claimed that ‘the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.’

Jonathan Kay

16 Sep 2024 · 29 min read

Forging Early America’s Northeastern Backbone

In a new book, David Alff traces the origins of the railway line that joined Boston to Washington, D.C., transforming a young nation in the process.

Jonathan Kay

29 Aug 2024 · 18 min read

Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.

Jonathan Kay

9 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

A space shuttle flies past an asteroid, against a backdrop of stars, in an image from a video game.

Space: The Ultimate (Boardgaming) Frontier

A homage to Phil Eklund’s masterpiece, High Frontier, on its twenty-fifth birthday.

Jonathan Kay

26 Jul 2024 · 11 min read

Imagen fija de un reportaje televisivo que muestra Bruno López entrevistando a guerrilleros maoístas Mexicanos.

Mi primo, el periodista

Un viaje por el camino de los recuerdos con un periodista mexicano-americano que pasó de escribir pies de foto para imágenes de pin-ups en un tabloide, en su adolescencia, a dirigir las operaciones digitales de Univisión.

Jonathan Kay

9 Jul 2024 · 8 min read

My Cousin, el Periodista

A trip down memory lane with a Mexican-American journalist who went from captioning pin-ups at his father’s tabloid as a teenager to leading Univision’s online operations.

Jonathan Kay

7 Jul 2024 · 8 min read

Tabletop Gaming’s Anti-Israel Meltdown: The Strange Tale of Waffles and Syrup

When the CEO of a boardgame awards show boasted publicly that she’d be disqualifying all nominees who ‘identify as Zionists,’ her event was quickly dropped from North America’s biggest game convention.

Jonathan Kay

2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi

In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.

Jonathan Kay

25 Jun 2024 · 16 min read