I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last? Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building. Jonathan Kay 18 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
A Public Servant Stood Up for Sex-Based Rights at a Gender Workshop—And Paid the Price In a recorded DEI session on ‘Trans Inclusion,‘ activist Adrienne Smith told the dissenting staff member, ‘I’m past the point of seeking a respectful debate.’ Jonathan Kay 13 Apr 2023 · 12 min read
Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’ The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history. Jonathan Kay 7 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using) It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values Jonathan Kay 25 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
At the Corner of Camp and Lafayette New Orleans has a starring role in many JFK conspiracy theories—as I learned during an odd but memorable street tour. Jonathan Kay 14 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
The ‘Shitty Media Men’ Legal Saga Comes to a Close Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan. Jonathan Kay 9 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
Gender, Sex, and Powerlifting With a biologically male athlete poised to break a Canadian women’s record, it’s time for the sport’s leaders to acknowledge the reality of sexual dimorphism. Jonathan Kay 2 Feb 2023 · 10 min read
A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists. Jonathan Kay 12 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well. Jonathan Kay 25 Dec 2022 · 8 min read
Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces. Jonathan Kay 9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
How Do We Protect Ourselves from Billion-Dollar Boy-Men? The hubris and dilettantism of corporate titans is an old story. But the risk has been compounded by digital technology’s hugely scalable nature. Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2022 · 7 min read
Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You No technical fix can remove the stress that comes with putting your opinions out into the world. And if you can’t handle that stress, you need to log off. Jonathan Kay 4 Nov 2022 · 5 min read
Welcome to Canada, Where Everyone’s a Génocidaire Canadians are being told that they’ve perpetrated multiple genocides. So why aren’t their leaders being tried at The Hague? Jonathan Kay 31 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Yale Law School, 25 Years Later At a reunion with my old Ivy League classmates, the faces were the same but the minds seemed wiser. Jonathan Kay 27 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Once a Man, Never a Woman In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria. Jonathan Kay 16 Oct 2022 · 10 min read