Beauty Privilege, Thirst Trapping and Promiscuity Shaming: Quillette Cetera Episode 9 Claire & Zoe discuss the complex world of intrasexual female competition and their experiences with it. Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Woke-washing and The Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Quillette Cetera Episode 8 Corporate redemption is no sign of true moral fibre. Zoe Booth / Claire Lehmann 11 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
In Canada, ‘Decolonization’ Has Become a Profitable Enterprise British Columbia’s nursing regulator paid consultants almost $100,000 to design a special complaints process for Indigenous patients. Amy Eileen Hamm 3 Jul 2023 · 6 min read
Lessons from an Academic Social Panic Following on an investigative report detailing McMaster University’s mishandling of false sex-ring accusations in 2020, here are four lessons to help prevent a recurrence Jonathan Kay 18 Jun 2023 · 11 min read
Father Absence Has Already Peaked A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.' Nicholas Wolfinger 23 Apr 2023 · 5 min read
I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last? Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building. Jonathan Kay 18 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’ The project that (finally) got me hooked on Canadian history. Jonathan Kay 7 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using) It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values Jonathan Kay 25 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
Comparing Wokeness to Christianity Is an Insult to the Church To the extent social-justice extremism resembles a puritanical faith, it’s one that provides believers with no grace and no hope of redemption. Matthew Rowley 20 Feb 2023 · 8 min read
Teaching UBC Medical Scholars that Biological Sex is a ‘Colonial Imposition’ How to identify a male research subject? At the University of British Columbia, it’s anyone who “resonates with masculinity.” Amy Eileen Hamm 14 Feb 2023 · 5 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
Don’t Use the W-Word Trumpeting your wokeness—or anti-wokeness—won’t do anything to fix society’s problems. Angel Eduardo 28 Jan 2023 · 5 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
