Jonathan Kay
Quillette Magazine
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Jonathan:
The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter
How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’ → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Truck convoy is a stunt in a country in which populism is still taboo
The protest speaks volumes about the state of right-wing politics in Canada, and puts those jockeying for the Conservative party leadership in a bind → Read More
Canada’s truck convoy is just a stunt in a country where populism is still taboo
The protests represent a fringe viewpoint north of the border. → Read More
Jonathan Kay: To Ottawa progressives, the trucker convoy is a military invasion they are bravely resisting
The newsmaker moments we’ve seen so far have mostly consisted of scattered protesters acting like thoughtless rubes → Read More
How woke can you go? In 2021, the answer was 'very', apparently
A look at the most hilariously woke Canadian social-justice meltdowns of the past year → Read More
Jonathan Kay: After this grubby campaign, who in their right mind would want to run for office?
Getting elected to public office has always been a difficult and demeaning project. But now, many of the rewards have disappeared → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories aren’t just killing people. They’re tearing society apart
It’s ironic that the same miracle drugs that could allow us to defeat a plague have become the seed pathogen for a conspiracist outbreak → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Why the Canadian left believes kooky theories about coded messages to Nazis
Most conspiracy theories follow a simple plotline: There’s a group of extremely evil people — Jews, Muslims, globalists, foreigners, take your pick —… → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Can Facebook's election fact checkers measure up to Twitter's crowdsourced hive mind?
Those who debunked Chrystia Freeland's manipulated video aren't professional fact checkers → Read More
Jonathan Kay: The performative snobbery of social justice invades the supermarket
Progressive ideological manias were once confined to a handful of privileged professional silos. Now, mass retail corporations are signing on, too → Read More
Jonathan Kay: How the left's obsession with American-style culture wars corroded Canadian identity
Canada Day now is being transformed into a morbid ceremony of grim repentance → Read More
Jonathan Kay: The cancelation of Michelle Latimer has become (another) disgrace to the CBC
It’s worth asking how they are explain going after a woman with Indigenous ancestry who trusted in her family’s own orally conveyed stories and collective… → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Oh look: Now the ravines are racist, too
I’ve been all over Toronto's ravine system over the past year, and despite what the Globe & Mail says, it's one big happy ethno-rama → Read More
The U.S. vaccine rollout is prompting an unusual emotion for us Canadians: envy
The U.S. pandemic response fed our superiority complex — until now. → Read More
Jonathan Kay: How a single anonymous Twitter account caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian university to unravel
According to the academics, the very future of the country’s political system might be at stake. All of this was precipitated by tweets that had amassed a… → Read More
Jonathan Kay: A white mob comes after an Arab-Canadian professor — in the name of anti-racism
One 50-year-old white woman tweeted, 'How is (it) that I understand systemic racism and she doesn’t?' → Read More
Jonathan Kay: Imported U.S. culture war about as Canadian as the Dallas Cowboys
One of the benefits of bilingualism is that Québécois culture supplies a needed reality check on American-inspired manias → Read More
Jonathan Kay: It's a pandemic Porsche, not a midlife crisis
I don’t even consider myself a Porsche 'owner' in any true moral sense. What I’ve done is invest. I’m an investor in the German auto market → Read More
Jonathan Kay: It takes a true artist to find new ways to shock the conscience. Kent Monkman has done that
Scathing remarks from Indigenous critics show how a fixation on ‘community’ can be just one more burden on non-white artists and writers → Read More
Dave Rubin interview: His new book, censorship on the left and what he sees happening in Canada
National Post columnist Jonathan Kay interviews American author Dave Rubin about his new book, censorship on the left and why Canadians are listening to what he has to say → Read More