“Boredom is bliss viewed from the shores of pleasure"
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Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate on cue by associating t...
An attendee at an academic conference a few years ago was in conversation with a woman who happened to mention a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue. He starts to say, “Can you give me an example......
Thank you for that warm introduction. I am very honoured to have been invited to speak at my graduate studies alma mater and happy that the occasion has allowed me to reconnect with some old friends.
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Thank you for that warm introduction. I am pleased and honoured to have been asked to speak to the London community tonight on a subject of great importance to all Canadian Jews.
If you read my colum...
Posted: July 29, 2009, 8:00 AM by NP Editor
Following news of the arrest last week of Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and th...
Legalized euthanasia empowers no one
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Monday, July 27, 2009
Have you noticed that the subject of euthanasi...
Barbara Kay: Euthanasia, abortion and the sanctity of life
Posted: July 23, 2009, 4:22 PM by Yoni Goldstein
Have you noticed that...
Unreadably Canadian
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Authors used to preserve a stoical silence when dragged to the aesthetic woodshed...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
It must be the crummy weather. I seem to be on a curmudgeonly literary roll. In last week's column, I shot...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 08, 2009
We Jews would like to be -- but are not -- a light-hearted people...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
It has always seemed outrageous to me that although Montreal accounts for one-third of Quebec's vot...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
A few months ago I took part in a mock debate whose annual tradition it is to task stand-up comics ma...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Last week's murder of Dr. George Tiller, probably the world's most committed abortion provider, evoked ...
An intellectual infection
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 05, 2009
Last week York Humanities professor Martin Lockshin wrote a column in these p...
Fat, and getting fatter
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
This past weekend, we were in the United States, land of the free --and the fat....
Feminism is still assaulting academia
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
If I were writing a novel illustrating the sad decline of academic...
The motion: A woman's proper place is in the kitchen
For the affirmative side, Anne Golden
Before I begin to speak, I would like to say a few words. First of all, I want
to recognize the immense...
Recently I saw two ads for the same private school. One had me drooling and — if I only had one handy — ready to sign up my young daughter. The other had me reeling in disgust, and vowin...