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
In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well. Jonathan Kay 25 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
A Media-Fueled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves Not a single body has been unearthed. But Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in The New York Times. Jonathan Kay 22 Jul 2022 · 16 min read
Is the New York Times Bad For Democracy? If the Times is implicated in the declining health of smaller news organizations, then it’s not serving the values of democracy as well as it righteously claims. Chang Che 20 Mar 2020 · 6 min read
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776 There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines. Wilfred Reilly 17 Feb 2020 · 10 min read
PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real Quillette / Jonathan Kay 21 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
Diet Reporting—the Real Fake News Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens. John Staddon 18 Sep 2019 · 7 min read
The New York Times Comes Out Against Free Speech The most influential newspaper in the world, the standard bearer of the Establishment, is announcing that free speech is, or should be, over. Larry Sanger 4 Jul 2018 · 14 min read
Should the New York Times Hire a Radical? If 6 percent of American voters identify as socialists, but only 5 percent as Never Trump conservatives, you might very well conclude that there’s more demand for columns about burning the Constitution than reigning in fiscal deficits. Nicholas Phillips 22 May 2018 · 7 min read