Mi primo, el periodista Un viaje por el camino de los recuerdos con un periodista mexicano-americano que pasó de escribir pies de foto para imágenes de pin-ups en un tabloide, en su adolescencia, a dirigir las operaciones digitales de Univisión. Jonathan Kay 9 Jul 2024 · 8 min read
My Cousin, el Periodista A trip down memory lane with a Mexican-American journalist who went from captioning pin-ups at his father’s tabloid as a teenager to leading Univision’s online operations. Jonathan Kay 7 Jul 2024 · 8 min read
Journalists Shouldn’t Depend on the State for Their Wages More than a third of many Canadian journalists’ salaries are now effectively being paid by Justin Trudeau’s government—an arrangement that’s created an obvious conflict of interest. Jonathan Kay 14 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Investigating the Academy In a recent speech to University of Toronto scholars, a Quillette editor explained why many of his fellow journalists are reluctant to report on administrative scandals at Canadian universities. Jonathan Kay 19 Apr 2024 · 15 min read
Ignore This Article Among the countless articles and words devoted to the expression of opinion in the last 150 years, the vast majority are forgotten endorsements of a status quo, or futile critiques from the sidelines that were soon overtaken by events. George Case 31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. Jeffrey Herf 10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read
Media Contagion Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives. Steve Salerno 24 Apr 2023 · 14 min read
Low Life and High Style Cruel, indiscreet, misanthropic and miserable, columnist Jeffrey Bernard nevertheless produced some bracing and scabrously funny journalism. Robin Ashenden 9 Feb 2023 · 14 min read
At Last, Mainstream Journalists Are Starting to Report the Truth About Youth Gender Clinics The New York Times and Guardian are the latest progressive institutions to scrutinize the safety of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ medical interventions. Bernard Lane 6 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
The Bobos at 22 In 2000, David Brooks foretold an American utopia that never arrived. Kevin Mims 10 Nov 2022 · 16 min read
Podcast # 194: Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic: How Did the Media Get This Blockbuster Story So Wrong? Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to National Post reporter (and popular Substack author) Terry Glavin about the blockbuster 2021 claim that hundreds of murdered Indigenous children had been found in unmarked graves, the process by which that story began to unravel in the year that followed, and what the Quillette 3 Aug 2022 · 1 min read
I Signed Up to Study Journalism. What They Taught Me Was Activism Even by the hyper-progressive standards of the Canadian education sector, Ryerson University in Toronto has distinguished itself as being unusually energetic in its social justice messaging. Last spring, Indigenous activists destroyed the statue of the university’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, on the basis that he helped design Canada’s system Jonathan Bradley 5 Mar 2022 · 11 min read
Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News McLuhan’s phenomenal success stemmed from being in the right place at the right time. Graham Majin 18 Jan 2022 · 16 min read
India’s Increasingly Despotic Crackdown on Journalists The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots. Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane 16 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account. Peter Mousaferiadis 18 Oct 2021 · 6 min read