Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

Barbara Kay: Netflix’s ‘Marriage Story’ a grim look at men during divorce

December 19, 2019

The new film Marriage Story is creating buzz, mostly positive. I caught it on Netflix the other night. It bothered me. Be warned, spoilers ahead.Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson...

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Do We Now Have Social Classes of Hate Killers?

December 16, 2019

On Dec 10, religious fanatics Francine Graham and David Anderson went on a bloody rampage in Jersey City, New Jersey. It began in a cemetery where they opened fire on Detective Joseph Seals, a ...

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Exploring the phenomenon of the social justice Jewish warrior

December 16, 2019

In a recent talk to the Jewish Labor Committee, Hillary Clinton exhorted her audience to bring all their forces to bear to defeating Trump: “It’s gonna be a tough election and you need to bring yo...

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Barbara Kay: A victory lap for democracy after Jeremy Corbyn’s humiliating defeat

December 13, 2019

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives racked up a stunning victory in the U.K. elections, with numbers so decisive – 368 of 650 seats – we will hear no more rumblings about a “secon...

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Kay: A home for small-c conservative Jews

December 12, 2019

Last month, lured by the topics and a roster of brilliant speakers, I finally made it my business to attend the full-day Jewish Leadership Conference in New York that’s sponsored by Tikvah Fund, a c...

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Barbara Kay: May Corbyn end up where he belongs — in the dustbin of history

December 10, 2019

Just a few days before the U.K. election, Boris Johnson’s poll numbers are thankfully stabilizing at a 10-point lead. The word “thankfully” has nothing to do with my opinion on Jo...

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Ontario mother starts new project to fight radical trans ideology

December 9, 2019

Six months ago I reported a story about an Ontario couple, Pamela and Jason Buffone, whose daughter, “N,” suffered so much distress in her Grade One classes on gender fluidity that her parents eve...

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Barbara Kay: Exploring why some societies thrive after trauma while others suffer

December 3, 2019

We all know when we have been victimized as individuals, and so do witnesses. The pain may or may not heal; the injustice may or may not be redressed. It gets murkier when groups claim permanent vi...

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The way they teach Orwell in Canada is Orwellian

November 29, 2019

All writers enjoying respect and popularity in their lifetimes entertain the hope that their work will outlive them. The true mark of a writer’s enduring influence is the adjectification of his (sor...

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Barbara Kay: Liberal democracy is struggling. Can conservative democracy thrive?

November 27, 2019

The historian Arnold Toynbee warned that “civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” He said they begin to disintegrate when they abandon moral law and yield to their impulses, whi...

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Ten years on, and we haven’t learned a thing from “Climategate”

November 21, 2019

In April, 2014, the Globe and Mail published an article, “Climate change and health: Extreme heat a ‘silent killer.’” In it, the reporter cites the claim of an alleged expert from a non-prof...

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Barbara Kay: Douglas Murray is a writer who says what the rest of us would like to

November 19, 2019

London-based public intellectual Douglas Murray is in Montreal this week to promote his new book. I was afforded the luxury of a rambling conversation over coffee with him about The Madness of Crow...

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Queen's Park memorial to the genocide of the Yezidi deserves your support

July 30, 2019

A sombre anniversary approaches. On Aug. 3, 2014, ISIL jihadists invaded the ancient city of Sinjar, the heartland of the Yezidi people. They forcibly converted, shot, beheaded or burned alive 10,000 ...

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160 years into Darwinism, there's one mystery we still can't explain

August 27, 2019

Back when the world was young, I was taught that four visionaries’ theories shaped modernity: Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Of them, only Einstein’s could b...

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Kay: The growing tendency to blame Israel for all Palestinian ills

September 19, 2019

Last month, Israa Gharib, a 21-year-old makeup artist from Bethlehem, was allegedly murdered by her father and brother – described as an “honour killing” – for posting a video of herself with ...

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Kay: The population bomb’s biggest bomb

October 17, 2019

The international buzz surrounding teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s sojourn in North America offers a troubling glimpse into the West’s escalating love affair with climate alarmis...

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Kay: Anti-Semitism is back in Berlin

November 14, 2019

We recently commemorated Kristallnacht, history’s most consequential pogrom. The Night of Broken Glass swept Germany over Nov. 9-10, 1938, resulting in 91 deaths, countless other Jews abused and 1,0...

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Barbara Kay: Muffling a lawyer’s book that looked at the entitlements of Indigenous peoples

September 3, 2019

Last February the Sudbury, Ont., branch of Chapters abruptly cancelled an upcoming book-signing event. A clue to its decision may be found in the politically incorrect title of the book in question...

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Barbara Kay: What are dogs for? To be waited upon by their humans, of course

September 10, 2019

It startled me to learn last week that Christie Blatchford’s beloved English bull terrier, Obie, had died at a ripe old age. Seems but a few years ago she informed readers of his acquisition ...

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Barbara Kay: Concordia’s Liberal Arts College finds it’s not immune to cancel culture

September 25, 2019

Liberal Arts College is a tiny college housed in an old greystone nestled within Montreal’s bustling downtown Concordia University campus. I’ve praised LAC in the past as an alternative...

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