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 · 6 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 · 6 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 · 8 min read
The ‘MoonSwatch’ Made Me Rethink My Relationship with Wristwatches I spent a lot of time discussing the Oscars online last week. But my friends and I didn’t waste time on Will Smith and Chris Rock, or even on the awards themselves. Instead, we focused on what the celebrities were wearing on their wrists. DJ Khaled sported a magnificently Jonathan Kay 6 Apr 2022 · 8 min read
I Didn’t Care About Crypto—Until a Fake Canadian ‘Emergency’ Showed Me Why We Need It A few weeks ago, I visited my new favourite financial institution. It’s a Toronto corner store with a big rusted out air conditioner over the front door, and windows plastered with ads for drumstick ice-cream cones and lottery tickets. Near the back door, nestled under old cardboard boxes full Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2022 · 14 min read
Quillette Podcast #182: Jacob Mchangama on His New Book, ’Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Copenhagen-based think-tank scholar and podcaster Jacob Mchangama about why so many human societies have such a difficult time tolerating dissent and heresy. Jonathan Kay / Quillette 7 Mar 2022 · 1 min read
Vladimir Putin’s Medieval Mindset In 1338, the story has it, a notorious French exile named Robert of Artois strutted into the London palace of King Edward III, bearing a stuffed heron on a silver platter. “Clear the way, you miserable failures,” he said to the assembled lords. “I have a heron … the most cowardly Jonathan Kay 3 Mar 2022 · 5 min read
The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse In some cases, drawing the line between permissible and impermissible forms of public protest can be difficult. But the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” that occupied downtown Ottawa until Sunday wasn’t one of those cases. Thousands of anti-vaccine-mandate protesters, many of them driving trucks, took over a large portion of Canada’ Jonathan Kay 21 Feb 2022 · 12 min read
We’re All Going to Get Omicron My friend Fred (not his real name) is one of the most conscientiously COVID-avoidant people I know. In the pandemic’s early days, he was the guy at my health club who investigated mechanisms we could use to sterilize tennis balls in real time, during play, lest virus particles make Jonathan Kay 11 Jan 2022 · 9 min read
Quillette Podcast #177: New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat on His Hellish Experience with Lyme Disease Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat about how his new book—which explores both his own fight against chronic Lyme disease, and the controversy surrounding the condition within the medical community. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 4 Jan 2022 · 1 min read
Podcast #176: Jonathan Kay on Middle Age, Watch Collecting, Sports Cars, Board Games, and Disc Golf Quillette’s Jonathan Kay ends 2021 by speaking to Bob Tarantino about the things he does when he isn’t hosting the Quillette podcast. For the original (and longer) version of this interview, please visit Bob Got a Microphone. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 23 Dec 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #175: Paul Lockhart on How Guns Transformed Western Civilization Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Wright State University professor Paul Lockhart about the enormous military and political upheavals set in motion by the adoption of gunpowder-based weapons from the 13th Century onward—including the demise of the medieval castle, the empowerment of large centralized states, and the deployment Quillette / Jonathan Kay / Paul Lockhart 20 Dec 2021 · 2 min read
Podcast #174: Trent Colbert Turns the Tables on Yale Law School’s Kafkaesque Diversity Department Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with second-year law student Trent Colbert, who recorded YLS Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik and Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove as they tried to strongarm him into a public confession. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 10 Dec 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 28 Nov 2021 · 21 min read
