Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

Forget “Be fruitful and multiply”. Today it’s “Be fruitless and subtract” – or else

January 24, 2018

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Humpty Dumpty deserved to fall

August 3, 2018

The fat, pompous egg sat precariously on the wall talking down to Alice and said, in a voice dripping with malign contempt: “When I use a word, it means just what I ch...

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If You Want Your Kids to Get a “Higher Education,” don’t Send Them to Most Universities; Send them to This One Instead

August 18, 2018

Donate All donations go towards promoting independent journalism and this month's charity.It’s still warm, and still officially summer, but the new school year looms large in the minds of parents ...

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In Their Own Voices: Feminism’s Invisible Victims

June 16, 2018

“Why Can’t We Hate Men?”, authored by academic feminist Suzanna D. Walters, contains many falsehoods. But Walters’ most ridiculous assertion therein was “The world has little place for femin...

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In Their Own Voices: Former feminists Explain Their Rejection of Feminism

June 23, 2018

Last week in this space I reviewed the recently published, Sons of Feminism: Men have their say, an anthology of essays and narratives by men from all walks of life and provenance, describing the vari...

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In its Obsession with Silencing Tommy Robinson, a Pusillanimous Establishment Abandons Treasured British Ideal of ‘Fair Play’

May 31, 2018

May 25 will be marked as a day of infamy for British justice. On that day, political activist Tommy Robinson was arrested outside a Leeds courthouse, where, as a citizen journalist employing normal jo...

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Is Motherhood Mainly Motivation for Misery? The New York Times seems to Think So

June 9, 2018

Last month, the New York Times marked the occasion of Mothers Day with “Stories of Motherhood, Told by Six Women.” Women readers had been solicited to share their experiences of becoming a mother,...

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Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?

November 24, 2018

In 1905, Harvard College adopted the College Entrance Examination Board tests as the principal basis for student admission, a blind test that favored intelligent applicants even if they lacked poise o...

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Justin Trudeau Throws his (Cultural) Grandmother Under the Progressive Bus

August 26, 2018

Donate All donations go towards promoting independent journalism and this month's charity.A videotaped exchange at a corn roast near Sabrevois, Quebec on August 16 between Prime Minister Trudeau and...

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KAY: Britain’s refusal of asylum to Asia Bibi is the modern equivalent of Canada’s rejection of the MS St Louis Jews

November 11, 2018

Almost ten years ago, Asia Bibi was an obscure farm worker in Pakistan, whose name would, in the normal course of events as we understand them in the West, remain completely unknown apart from her fam...

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KAY: Can conservatives and liberals really be friends in 2018?

December 10, 2018

A dialogue between two former enemies, “Can You Love the Person You Love to Hate?” published by the New York Times, has attracted a lot of attention. The protagonists are female writers wh...

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KAY: Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test – mocked by Trump and rejected by the Cherokees

October 21, 2018

Elizabeth Warren seems to have definitively thrown her political hat into the 2020 presidential ring. As of now, she’s out there front and centre. Elizabeth Warren seems to have definitively th...

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KAY: Shared parenting after separation – Canadians want it, but Bill C-78 stubbornly clings to outdated winner-takes-all model

November 23, 2018

Bill C-78, An Act to amend the Divorce Act had its first reading on May 22. It is now in Committee with witness presentations underway. Everyone agrees that government reforms on divorce law were ne...

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KAY: Should Brett Kavanaugh have stepped down after being confirmed, as Jordan Peterson suggests?

October 15, 2018

Some Facebook threads I started by posting pro-Kavanaugh pieces ended up occupying a good part of my time last week. With comments split pretty evenly between sympathy for him and sympathy for her, th...

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KAY: The Hypocrisy of Anti-Kavanaugh Feminists

September 26, 2018

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KAY: The debate over “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is tone deaf

December 17, 2018

Baby, it’s cold outside. Seriously. I live in Montreal and it’s extremely cold outside. We’re also deeply into pre-Christmas festivating, which naturally involves multiple inescapabl...

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KAY: “What’s in a Residential School’s Name?” – The Talk that the University of Winnipeg Club Didn’t Want Their Members to Hear

October 29, 2018

On Oct 23, the University of Winnipeg Club, a dining and social club, with membership open to all university employees, cancelled an Oct 25 talk scheduled as one of its “Hot Lunch Speakers ...

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KAY: Who really won the Munk Debate on populism – and why

November 4, 2018

Friday night’s Munk debate between David Frum and Stephen K. Bannon at Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall had, as its topic, “Be it resolved, the future of western politics is populist, not...

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KAY: Women are not “womxn” no matter what activists say

December 2, 2018

Activists at some British universities have decreed that the words “woman” and “women” are not inclusive enough in today’s gender-fluid world, so have introduced “w...

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Kay: ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ and the Song of Songs

December 25, 2018

Shir ha-Shirim (the Song of Songs) has lately been the focus of a weekly study group I attend at my shul. Most of the Shir is an explicitly sexual dialogue between two lovers. A few minutes into last ...

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