Podcast #274: David Frum on Donald Trump’s Betrayal of Ukraine Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer David Frum about Trump’s pro-Russian political cult. Also discussed: Israel, the fate of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, and the strange social panic surrounding Canada’s (as yet undiscovered) ‘unmarked graves.’ Quillette 1 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
Four Years. Zero Graves. Now What? In 2021, Canadians were told that the remains of 215 Indigenous children had been found at a former school. The story turned out to be false—but no one in authority seems to know how to walk it back. Jonathan Kay 27 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
Explaining Canada’s Cult of ‘Decolonial Futurity’ to Americans Legions of Canadian university students are now required to mumble fatuous platitudes about decolonisation as a condition of graduation. It’s effectively become Canada’s national liturgy. Jonathan Kay 17 Feb 2025 · 9 min read
Podcast #271: The Canadian Episode—Trump’s Tariffs and Trudeau’s Travails Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape. Quillette 8 Feb 2025 · 14 min read
A Pointless Economic Attack on America’s Northern Neighbour Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs. Jonathan Kay 5 Feb 2025 · 8 min read
Memorial Daze Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil. George Case 14 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
My Experience Working With Justin Trudeau: Quillette Cetera Episode 43 Zoe interviews her colleague Jonathan Kay, who once ghostwrote for Trudeau, about his time working with the Canadian soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister. Zoe Booth / Jonathan Kay 13 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Keeping BDS Out of Academia: A Canadian Case Study Recordings from a recent Brock University faculty union meeting illustrate the tactics that anti-Israel activists use to co-opt ostensibly neutral academic institutions. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 10 min read
Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
DEI Without the Dogma A business-communications coach reflects on the connections between her college-era Marxist beliefs and the identity-based fixations that have come to dominate her industry. Evelina Silveira 28 Oct 2024 · 13 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights. Meghan Murphy 2 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
When Will The New York Times Correct Its Flawed Reporting on ‘Unmarked Graves’? The same reporter who helped spark Canada’s 2021 social panic has published a new article walking back his original errors—but those mistakes remain uncorrected on the Times’ website. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 8 min read
Canada’s Faltering ‘Unmarked Graves’ Narrative Goes to Court When lawyers asked the Law Society of British Columbia to correct the false claim that ‘the bodies of 215 children’ were discovered in Kamloops, the legal regulator accused them of bigotry. Jonathan Kay 20 Sep 2024 · 11 min read
I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You) A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values. Nick Osmond-Jones 16 Sep 2024 · 23 min read
