Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice A true and sincere confession of one’s actual sins and cruelties is a courageous act that leaves one vulnerable and exposed. Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2021 · 16 min read
Anti-Racism as Office-Politics Power Play: a Canadian Academic Case Study Last week, 53 top Canadian academic administrators convened in Ottawa for a biannual membership meeting of Universities Canada, a group dedicated to “providing university presidents with a unified voice for higher education.” The 89-page meeting agenda, which was leaked to me after the event, makes for an interesting read. The Jonathan Kay 7 Nov 2021 · 8 min read
Podcast #170: Will Storr on Our Insatiable Appetite for Status Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author Will Storr about his new book detailing the profound role of status-seeking in shaping human societies. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 26 Oct 2021 · 1 min read
Studying the True Face of Gender Ideology While many of us are lazy and gullible in our ideological commitments, pledging allegiance to faddish notions so that we may be seen as enlightened, such vanities tend to fall away once we see evidence that proves we’ve been duped. Jonathan Kay 20 Oct 2021 · 16 min read
My Life as a Ghostwriter If you pick the right projects, on the other hand, ghostwriting can be highly lucrative, especially as compared to the low payouts available to mid-list authors publishing non-fiction books under their own name. Jonathan Kay 26 Sep 2021 · 12 min read
Podcast #166: Josh Szeps on the Myth of Australia’s COVID ‘Concentration Camps’ Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews ABC presenter and podcaster Josh Szeps about Australia’s unique experience in managing the COVID pandemic—and the urban legends the country’s quarantine system has spawned among right-wing pundits on the other side of the world. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 19 Sep 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #163: Satirist Simon Edge on His New Novel, 'The End of the World Is Flat,' a Send-up of Radical Gender Politics Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Simon Edge about his new book, in which a fictional flat-earth advocacy group campaigns against the idea of a spherical earth (not to mention the "globularist" "TERGs" who oppose the new 'True Earth' orthodoxy) in the Quillette / Jonathan Kay 31 Aug 2021 · 7 min read
Podcast #162: Journalist and Book Author Terry Glavin on the Fall of Kabul and the Fate of Afghanistan Host Jonathan Kay interviews Afghanistan expert Terry Glavin about the complex mix of warlords and foreign players who may seek to undo the country’s takeover by Taliban forces. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 23 Aug 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #160: Author Milli Hill on the Growth of Social Justice Mobs Among Birthing Activists, Dhoullas, and Midwives Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with British writer Milli Hill about the online mob that accused her of transphobia in late 2020—and why she still refuses to describe women as “birthing people.” Read her July 10, 2021 essay about her experience here. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 30 Jul 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #159: Jonathan Kay on Life at Quillette, The New York Times, FOX News, Seth Rogen, His New Book, and Del Boca Vista Quillette editor and podcast host Jonathan Kay tells David Bernstein, founder of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, about his life as a journalist and self-described “lapsed Jew.” Quillette / Jonathan Kay / David Bernstein 23 Jul 2021 · 1 min read
Podcast #156: Christian Toto on Progressive Ideological Inroads Into Children’s Shows, Anti-Racist Baby Books, And… Breakfast Cereal Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to film writer Christian Toto about his RealClearInvestigations look into the increasingly direct identity-politics messaging that now is being pushed on North American toddlers through television, books, and marketing. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 6 Jul 2021 · 1 min read
Jonathan Kay Jonathan Kay is an editor and writer at Quillette, a TedX speaker, an op-ed columnist at National Post, and host of the Quillette podcast. His work has appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Skeptic, Canadian Lawyer and Canadian Jewish News. His books Quillette / Jonathan Kay 6 Jul 2021 · 1 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic. Jonathan Kay 1 Apr 2021 · 18 min read
Podcast 141: Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist Internet Subculture of ‘Gangstalking’ Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to Canadian researcher Andrew Lustig about his research on the web-based communities of individuals who believe they are surrounded by evidence of an enormous “gangstalking” conspiracy, involving dozens or even hundreds of individuals, aimed at causing them to become insane or commit suicide. Quillette / Jonathan Kay 20 Mar 2021 · 1 min read
