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
· 7 min read
Quillette Cetera
A collection of 74 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
Yale Law School, 25 Years Later
At a reunion with my old Ivy League classmates, the faces were the same but the minds seemed wiser.
Jonathan Kay
· 5 min read
Once a Man, Never a Woman
In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Canada’s Cultural-Appropriation Tempest, Five Years Later
A few weeks ago, I was approached by Indigenous journalist Robert Jago, who was looking to do a podcast episode about cultural appropriation—with a focus on Sasquatch as his main case study. He asked me for an interview, and sent me a list of questions, some pertaining to my
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read