Tabatha Southey
Maclean's Magazine
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Tabatha:
Stockwell's day is done
Tabatha Southey: Seriously, you could not do worse than Day—I’d take a committed nudist over Wetsuit Guy → Read More
My bookclub with U.S. Attorney General William Barr
Opinion: Think the Attorney General's testimony this week was frustrating? Just try discussing Moby Dick with him. → Read More
Donald Trump continues his ongoing vendetta against windmills
Tabatha Southey: The U.S. President recently said that the noise made by windmills causes cancer. His squabble against this so-called enemy evokes comparisons to Don Quixote. → Read More
Doug Ford’s cellphone distraction
Tabatha Southey: Ontario’s cellphone ban is the 'Buck-a-Beer' of education policy. All catchphrase. No cattle. → Read More
You mean your family doesn't constantly talk about death?
Tabatha Southey: Planning for the end of life, passed from one generation to the next, is only prudent → Read More
Here's to you, swim instructors and daycamp counsellors—the heroes of summer
By shepherding and teaching children, swimming instructors and camp counsellors spend their summers providing little acts of kindness and love → Read More
Donald Trump goes to history class
Opinion: Did Canada burn down the White House in the War of 1812? No, not exactly—but Tabatha Southey finds out what else the President knows about history → Read More
Try as we might, Facebook isn't going anywhere
We've created a monster, writes Tabatha Southey—and the way Facebook is embedded into our lives means it will be a problem to fix, rather than quit → Read More
Tabatha Southey: An ode to the snow day
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, writes Tabatha Southey—but it lacks the pure surprise and joy of a good old-fashioned snow day → Read More
Neo-Nazis are no joke—they just want you to think they are
A style guide for a neo-Nazi publication reveals what should be obvious, writes Tabatha Southey: darkness lurks behind their self-parodying 'humour' → Read More
Why 2018 is the year of... oh God, now what?!
End-of-year columns are supposed to be an easy gift. And this year, that's been taken away from our writer, Tabatha Southey. Is nothing sacred? → Read More
What we know—and have always known—about this moment in sexual harassment
These stories of harassment exist on a spectrum, but they’re all about abuse of power as gratification, writes Tabatha Southey → Read More
Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man's smart person?
Tabatha Southey delves into University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson's work and finds his secret sauce—and what makes his work unnerving → Read More
On 'Climate Barbie,' and the plight of the Man Un-Laughed-With
Tabatha Southey pours one out for the men who relish cheap, crass jokes at the expense of women—which are now being met with silence → Read More
Some Conservatives have denounced The Rebel. What took so long?
Ezra Levant’s far-right website has been experiencing something of a reckoning since the white supremacist rally in Virginia, but it had been espousing racist vitriol long before that → Read More
Presidenting 101: Intro to denouncing racism
Taking a stand against this week’s overtly racist ‘Unite the Right’ march in Charlottesville should have come easily to Donald Trump → Read More
The White House rock band needs some new tunes
Donald Trump’s bandmates have been falling all over themselves to throw water on the fire their frontman merrily started → Read More
Five summer movies walk into a bar…
A roundtable chat with a few of the summer’s biggest hits...and one disappointment → Read More
A confederacy of idiots? If only it were that innocent
The notion that Donald Trump is some sort of media-manipulating master of misdirection rests on the very shaky premise that there is some method to his madness → Read More
Outrage over female Doctor Who can be heard through time and space
Some fans view the casting move as capitulation to the dark forces of “political correctness” → Read More