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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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

Bruno Lopez with a dark, thick moustache interviews guerillas in ski masks with guns in the jungle.

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

A woman and two men on stage in front of a poster at the GRIT awards.

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

People on a trans-rights protest march, with flags, megaphone, banners.

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

Stuffed animals and childrens toys tied to a gate at a shrine for the supposed bodies of the children buried at Kamloops.

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

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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

University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto. University buildings with a Pride flag.

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

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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

Lazuli Clark competing on KIPP Academy Lynn’s girls’ high-school volleyball team.

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