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
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
Journalists Shouldn’t Depend on the State for Their Wages More than a third of many Canadian journalists’ salaries are now effectively being paid by Justin Trudeau’s government—an arrangement that’s created an obvious conflict of interest. Jonathan Kay 14 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Podcast #238: Supporting Trans People Without Denying the Facts of Biology Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Duke University law school professor (and former US National Collegiate athletic champion) Doriane Lambelet Coleman about her new book, ‘On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach.’ Jonathan Kay / Doriane Lambelet Coleman 12 Jun 2024 · 25 min read
Canada’s Elusive Unmarked Graves: a Third-Anniversary Update Many of the public figures who stoked the country’s morbid 2021 social panic are now doing their best to change the subject. Jonathan Kay 29 May 2024 · 11 min read
What an Honest Conversation About Gender Sounds Like Self-styled trans apostate Debbie Hayton isn’t craving anyone’s ‘affirmation’—because she knows she’s not really a woman. Jonathan Kay 20 May 2024 · 8 min read
Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities. Jonathan Kay 19 Apr 2024 · 15 min read
From Banana Slugs to Human Beings, There Are Just Two Sexes An examination of 18 supposedly ‘trans animals’ disproves activist claims that we all live on a non-binary gender ‘spectrum.’ Emma Hilton / Jonathan Kay 17 Apr 2024 · 11 min read
The Damage Caused by Trans ‘Inclusion’ In Female Athletics: a Massachusetts Case Study A single biologically male high-school student has invaded female categories in at least four different sports—negatively affecting hundreds of girls and women in the process. Jonathan Kay 2 Apr 2024 · 18 min read
Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back Jonathan Kay 15 Feb 2024 · 36 min read
New Details in the Tragic Case of Toronto Educator Richard Bilkszto A Freedom-of-Information request sheds light on the Toronto District School Board’s ‘abusive, egregious and vexatious’ anti-racism trainer. Jonathan Kay 24 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
When Denouncing ‘Settler Colonialism’ Blurs into Hamas Apologism: A Conversation with Michael Powell The Atlantic magazine writer speaks with Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about the use of fashionable academic jargon to convey hateful propaganda. Jonathan Kay 19 Jan 2024 · 19 min read