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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At the Corner of Camp and Lafayette

New Orleans has a starring role in many JFK conspiracy theories—as I learned during an odd but memorable street tour.

Jonathan Kay

14 Mar 2023 · 10 min read

The ‘Shitty Media Men’ Legal Saga Comes to a Close

Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan.

Jonathan Kay

9 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

Gender, Sex, and Powerlifting

With a biologically male athlete poised to break a Canadian women’s record, it’s time for the sport’s leaders to acknowledge the reality of sexual dimorphism.

Jonathan Kay

2 Feb 2023 · 11 min read

A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course

Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists.

Jonathan Kay

12 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another

When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.

Jonathan Kay

25 Dec 2022 · 9 min read

Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk

A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces.

Jonathan Kay

9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

How Do We Protect Ourselves from Billion-Dollar Boy-Men?

The hubris and dilettantism of corporate titans is an old story. But the risk has been compounded by digital technology’s hugely scalable nature.

Jonathan Kay

22 Nov 2022 · 8 min read

Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You

No technical fix can remove the stress that comes with putting your opinions out into the world. And if you can’t handle that stress, you need to log off.

Jonathan Kay

4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read

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 · 11 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 · 19 min read

Canada Called Itself a Genocide State. Iran Was Listening

In his propaganda about supposed child graves, Ebrahim Raisi is merely reading our own misinformation back to us.

Jonathan Kay

23 Sep 2022 · 4 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 · 9 min read