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
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
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
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 · 8 min read
