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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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

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

Photo of Debbie Hayton, in front of trees.

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

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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

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

Western Europe’s Forgotten Nightmare

In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.

Jonathan Kay

6 Jan 2024 · 14 min read

Feminism v. Gender Ideology: An Interview with Julie Bindel

During a visit to the county she calls ‘Tranada,’ the veteran activist and author tells Quillette that ‘intersectional’ feminism often resembles a rainbow-branded offshoot of the men’s-rights movement.

Julie Bindel / Jonathan Kay

7 Dec 2023 · 29 min read