Welcome to Canada, Where Everyone’s a Génocidaire Canadians are being told that they’ve perpetrated multiple genocides. So why aren’t their leaders being tried at The Hague? Jonathan Kay 31 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Yale Law School, 25 Years Later At a reunion with my old Ivy League classmates, the faces were the same but the minds seemed wiser. Jonathan Kay 27 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Once a Man, Never a Woman In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria. Jonathan Kay 16 Oct 2022 · 10 min read
Exalting an ‘Anti-Colonial’ Gender Identity In a new report, Canadian educators are instructed about a Two-Spirit LGBT subcategory that, even the authors admit, lacks any real definition. Jonathan Kay 3 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
Disc Golf’s Lia Thomas Moment As a biologically male player continues a meteoric rise on the female circuit, women are starting to speak out. Jonathan Kay 28 Sep 2022 · 18 min read
Canada Called Itself a Genocide State. Iran Was Listening In his propaganda about supposed child graves, Raisi is merely reading our own misinformation back to us. Jonathan Kay 23 Sep 2022 · 3 min read
Canada’s Cultural-Appropriation Tempest, Five Years Later A few weeks ago, I was approached by Indigenous journalist Robert Jago, who was looking to do a podcast episode about cultural appropriation—with a focus on Sasquatch as his main case study. He asked me for an interview, and sent me a list of questions, some pertaining to my Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2022 · 8 min read
Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada’s Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown Amita Kuttner claimed that online text reading ‘she’ instead of ‘they’ illustrated a ‘system of oppression.‘ Now the party’s president has resigned, and the movement is in chaos. Jonathan Kay 15 Sep 2022 · 7 min read
Denouncing The Diagolonoids A Canadian right-wing nut is peddling a satirical meme about a diagonally-shaped North American superstate. Needless to say, much of the country’s intellectual class is terrified. Jonathan Kay 2 Sep 2022 · 6 min read
The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’ Jonathan Kay 25 Aug 2022 · 12 min read
Apple’s Depressing Denouement A review of ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022). Jonathan Kay 11 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
A Media-Fueled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times. Jonathan Kay 22 Jul 2022 · 16 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls. Jonathan Kay 20 Jun 2022 · 5 min read
The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective It is not science fiction to imagine that Section 319 and other as-yet-undrafted Canadian “anti-hate” laws will metastasize. Jonathan Kay 4 Jun 2022 · 5 min read
When Disagreement Becomes Trauma How does one deal with those who claim that debate itself represents an agony beyond human endurance? Jonathan Kay 8 May 2022 · 7 min read