Hunting the fox, skewering the Finn
Renaissance man Roger Scruton serves up original ideas, chiselled prose
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Until August, my name was completely unknown to most of Quebec's francophones. On Aug. 9, that all changed with my National Post column titled "The Rise of Quebecistan." Sudden...
Response to Criticism from Librarian regarding column of
November 01,2006
On the Post's Nov. 11 Letters page, Brenda Roberts, Ottawa Pubic Library librarian, accused me of "inte...
I attended the National Post's lively 8th anniversary party in Toronto last month. Alas, the band was far too loud for my oldie taste. Mindful of encroaching hearing loss, I left early w...
MONTREAL - Pity Sorya Ingrid Gaulin. Her role as VP of Public Relations at Indigo Books and Music demanded she confront the wrathful public face of North America's most formidable conser...
MONTREAL - Just when the newly designed Maclean's seemed finally to have shucked all the turgid remnants of its former politically correct image, the Nov. 6 issue reverted to type on the...
MONTREAL - Last week, while being buffed for an interview on a French-language TV talk show, I observed a quartet of young Muslim women trooping in for their touch-ups. They were amateur mod...
It would appear that Pope Benedict XVI intends to reinvigorate the beleaguered (Tridentine) Latin mass, which in the late '60s was almost universally replaced by individual vernacular la...
We have heard the story before. The names change, the province changes, the particulars of the custody case change, the age of the dead child changes, but some things stay the same when a mo...
Leave religion out of recruiting
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, October 04, 2006
In the 1950s, when Israel was a fledgling state, my friends and I used to (half...
"I believe children have the right to a mother and a father, and preferably their biological parents." These words -- I agree with them, and so do the UN Conventions of the Child -...
The first indication that our son, Jonny, had allergies occurred when, at the age of about 15 months, he got sick after eating chicken a la king (for anyone under the age of 50, this is basi...
What's it like to go into anaphylactic shock? Is a snake a good
alternative when cats make you sneezy and dogs make you wheezy? And hasn't every asthmatic faked it at least once?...
MONTREAL - As a former teacher at Dawson College who lives only eight blocks from the scene of last Wednesday's mayhem, I followed developing news with troubled fascination, grateful tha...
In his Sept. 2 National Post column, George Jonas noted that if universities had been eliminated around 1900, we'd have been spared the devastating effects of many toxic ideologies, whic...
‘We miss him”, my companion says with understated sadness. “We feel orphaned.”
I am interviewing Freddy Eytan, polyglot Israeli journalist, diplomat, profe...
My Aug. 9 column, "The Rise of Quebecistan," has become a focus for great controversy in Quebec. In the past week, I have been interviewed by numerous radio stations, both French a...
I'm a judgmental sort of person, not the kind you'd go to for unconditional love (unless you were one of my three adorable grandchildren). Impatient enough as a real parent, I think ...
MONTREAL - In his Montreal Gazette column yesterday, Don MacPherson projected a worrying Quebec trend with startling candour: "It's finally becoming respectable again to ...
Schism at the salon
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A few months ago, I was charmed by an exchange via column and letters to the editor by libertar...