News analysis by Barbara Kay
When I began writing regularly for Canada’s National Post, my editor told me that two kinds of news stories can be counted on to attract heated response...
National Post
National Post
The sexual revolution seems to be running out of steam in the West.
The Post’s September 11 editorial informs us that many indicators, such as a dramatically diminished intere...
If there’s one thing that irritates an ideologue, it’s when reality does not conform to cherished theories. I daresay many feminists are grinding their teeth over Janay Rice’s...
With polls pointing to a very close vote in Scotland’s referendum on independence, some Canadian pundits are nervously contemplating the effect on Quebec nationalism if the Yes side shoul...
In 1985, with feminism still at its height, U.S. sociologist Lenore Weitzman published a book, The Divorce Revolution, in which she claimed to have analyzed a sample of Los Angeles-area divorce...
The escape Monday of 32 teenagers from the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center, in Tennessee brought the facility under scrutiny, and not for the first time. Last May, a half doze...
The ISIS terrorist that executed James Foley spoke to the world with a British accent. News reports tell us that his identity may soon be revealed. But we already know that British-born and raised ...
Dog behaviourist Ray Coppinger, a revered pioneer in the field of canine cognition, and a rugged outdoorsman whose dogs worked for their keep, has no use for wussy urbanites who treat dogs as f...
In the historical scheme of things, Israel’s summer war with Gaza was small potatoes. But western media, largely critical of Israel, made a banquet of it. And in the familiar way of most ...
by John Homans
Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2012.
Reviewed by Barbara Kay
Humans and dogs have travelled a long road togeth...
It is probably a good thing that 66-year old UK judge, Mary Jane Mowat, has just retired from Oxford Crown Court. Her new status permits her to remain serenely indifferent to the torrent o...
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. In every religious faith, in every ideology, leaders know that the surest route to mass compliance and unshakable faith is through the children. Get &lsq...
A few months ago, bowing to pressure from the Canadian Bar Association, the federal government slammed the door shut on a private member’s bill advancing shared parenting as the default i...
I once sued a horse dealer for fraud. I had an excellent case, but my lawyer said I would make a “bad witness.” Shocked, I protested that I was unusually articulate. That, apparentl...
Even in distant Montreal, I can almost hear the great whoosh of relief emanating from Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party caucus at former Premier Alison Redford’s announ...
I grew up reading Archie comics in the 1950s. My kids read Archie comics in the 1970s. And now my grandchildren are reading Archie comics … from the 1970s. Once the Archie gang got polit...
Emma Teitel, a columnist of progressive views for Macleans magazine, recently walked into a north Toronto camping stores serving a largely Jewish clientele. There she saw something “that ...
In the past, television ad-makers rarely have dared make fun of moms. But dads usually have been seen as fair game for satirical commercials portraying fathers as immature slovens or domestic i...
A few years ago I took part in a charity event at which the evening’s entertainment was a comic debate, the resolution being, “The shorter man is the better man.” I was a...
Up until now, the charm offensive by intellectuals in the pit bull advocacy movement (PBAM) has been confined to publications targeting people capable of reading them.
Now Canadian novelist,&nb...
