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The Auckland Mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen Was Fuelled by Media-Peddled Misinformation

Why are journalists at Stuff, The Spinoff, and other New Zealand outlets promoting propaganda on behalf of trans-rights activists?

Laura López

4 May 2023 · 12 min read

Father Absence Has Already Peaked

A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'

Nicholas Wolfinger

23 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last?

Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building.

Jonathan Kay

18 Apr 2023 · 7 min read

A Public Servant Stood Up for Sex-Based Rights at a Gender Workshop—And Paid the Price

In a recorded DEI session on ‘Trans Inclusion,‘ activist Adrienne Smith told the dissenting staff member, ‘I’m past the point of seeking a respectful debate.’

Jonathan Kay

13 Apr 2023 · 12 min read

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

Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age

Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong.

Patrick Parkinson

20 Mar 2023 · 12 min read

The ‘Shitty Media Men’ Legal Saga Comes to a Close

Years after being falsely accused of rape, Stephen Elliott will receive a six-figure defamation settlement from Moira Donegan.

Jonathan Kay

9 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

Nick Cave’s Lessons in Grief

The singer’s new book awakened me to a paradoxical fact: tragedy can sometimes remind us of what makes life worth living.

Neil Gray

8 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 · 7 min read

The Ethos of Female Prisons

A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women.

Holly Lawford-Smith

16 Feb 2023 · 12 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 · 10 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

A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course

Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists.

Jonathan Kay

12 Jan 2023 · 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 · 8 min read