A collection of 11 posts
Jonathan Kay speaks with journalist Adam Zivo about the 10 February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia—a mass murder perpetrated by a trans-identified male gunman who was initially identified by police and journalists as a woman.
The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.
A leading expert in narcissism explains why it’s so often misunderstood—and why narcissists deserve more empathy, not armchair diagnosis on social media.
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression.
Whatever the literary strengths of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book has done much to harm both the mentally ill and their communities.
There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.
Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.
Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.