When Censorship Is Crowdsourced The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other. Jonathan Kay 9 Sep 2018 · 13 min read
Hashtags and Terror Narratives in Toronto Any place can seem ‘no go’ to those who’ve never gone. Jonathan Kay 26 Jul 2018 · 11 min read
‘Grope-gate’ and #MeToo's Crisis of Legitimacy Grope-gate has emerged at a time when the #MeToo movement is suffering a crisis of moral legitimacy in Canada. Jonathan Kay 10 Jul 2018 · 7 min read
Social Justice is Popular. But the Rule of Law is Sacrosanct But law and social justice do not always go hand in hand—at least, not in the short term. Jonathan Kay 14 Jun 2018 · 8 min read
How Canada’s Cult of the Noble Savage Harms Its Indigenous Peoples Generations of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to church- and government-run residential schools, which systematically stripped away their culture and language. Jonathan Kay 22 Apr 2018 · 22 min read
Why They Hate Margaret Atwood And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine. Jonathan Kay 15 Mar 2018 · 18 min read
Racism, Anti-Racism, and Orientalism at LitHub Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy. Jonathan Kay 17 Jan 2018 · 10 min read
"Canada Has Gone Mad": Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.” Jonathan Kay 10 Jan 2018 · 14 min read
Making a Stand for Cultural Universalism Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture. Jonathan Kay 8 Dec 2017 · 11 min read
