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 · 8 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 · 13 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 · 8 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 · 11 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 · 9 min read
Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces. Jonathan Kay 9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
How Do We Protect Ourselves from Billion-Dollar Boy-Men? The hubris and dilettantism of corporate titans is an old story. But the risk has been compounded by digital technology’s hugely scalable nature. Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
