Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists. Jonathan Kay 31 Oct 2019 · 12 min read
Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week's Election Proved the Opposite Even if one accepts the Star’s generous tally of right-wing protestors at the pictured event—“about 15 people”—the conceit that “hate fills Edmonton’s streets” is ludicrous. Jonathan Kay 22 Oct 2019 · 8 min read
How Boardgames Teach the Limits of Rationalism The drive to deal with other players is embedded in the scoring rules, which emphasize economies of scale. Jonathan Kay 15 Oct 2019 · 10 min read
PODCAST 55: Samantha Geimer, raped by Roman Polanski at 13, on her rejection of victimhood Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Jonathan Kay about why she has refused to be cast as a victim and how she’s dealt with the controversy her stance has generated. She is steeling herself for another bout of unwanted attention when Polanski’s Quillette / Jonathan Kay 26 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real Quillette / Jonathan Kay 21 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
PODCAST 53: Gay Rights Activist Shane Windmeyer on his Changing Attitude to Chick-Fil-A Gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer talks to Jonathan Kay about his changing attitude to Chick-fil-A, which recently opened its first outlet in Toronto. As the founder of Campus Pride, a nationwide LGBT student activist group, Windmeyer was originally a sworn enemy of Chick-fil-A because the company has donated to groups Quillette / Jonathan Kay 15 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
PODCAST 52: Yale Law School Professor Anthony Kronman on the Crisis in American Higher Education Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America’s elite universities. Photo courtesy of Yale University. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 5 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article. Lindsay Shepherd / Jonathan Kay 31 Aug 2019 · 9 min read
Quillette Podcast 39 – Coleman Hughes on His Reparations Testimony Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Coleman wrote an article for Quillette about why he’s opposed to reparations in March of this year. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 24 Jun 2019 · 1 min read
A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business. Jonathan Kay 18 Jun 2019 · 9 min read
On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring Nineteen-Eighty Four, whose first publication took place 70 years ago today, is itself a sort of anti-novel, one that undermines its own dramatic tension in a way that might now be described as postmodern. Jonathan Kay 8 Jun 2019 · 15 min read
The Ultimate ‘Concept Creep’: How a Canadian Inquiry Strips the Word ‘Genocide’ of Meaning All societies lie to themselves about genocide. But the nature of the lies change over time. Jonathan Kay 3 Jun 2019 · 9 min read
How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia University Universities have no obligation to invite any particular public figure to speak on campus. But once they’ve promised someone a platform, the stakes are raised: Both speaker and audience are invested in the outcome. Jonathan Kay 19 Apr 2019 · 14 min read
The Circular Firing Squad Is Destroying the Left's Political Brand: A Case Study from Canada Some of the sharpest blows delivered against Canadian progressives over the last month have been the result of poisonous civil wars within the progressive community itself. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2019 · 10 min read
Giving the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Its Star Turn on Video The American intelligentsia seem to have slipped into a state of febrile lunacy in recent years. Jonathan Kay 29 Mar 2019 · 3 min read
