Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

Progressives support Racist Policies targeting Asian-Americans to Protect the Big Lie at the Heart of Multiculturalism

July 1, 2018

New York’s super-progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio has pledged to get rid of the Specialized High School Admissions Test, the rigorous entrance exam that has, up to now, been the sole determinan...

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Barbara Kay: UBC had a #MeToo bloodletting. It was a disaster for everyone

June 26, 2018

The Lottery, Shirley Jackson’s macabre 1948 tale illuminating the human tendency to conform with evil, ranks high amongst American short stories. The ending is unforgettably shocking: as the ...

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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 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 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 8, 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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Barbara Kay: The male crisis that’s ruining our boys and no one cares about

June 13, 2018

Father’s Day approaches and with it the opportunity to consider the importance of fathers to their children.It is difficult to overstate both the positive effects of growing up with a father a...

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Sarcasm is the Jewish sword

June 8, 2018

Two American giants exited the literary world in May: Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. Apart from their brilliance in mapping America’s social and cultural landscape, they could not have been more differe...

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Barbara Kay: A celebrated figure today could well be the condemned sinner of tomorrow

June 5, 2018

It was a happy day for the Winnipeg Pakistani community at the recent official opening of a park named for Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan in 1948. The ceremonies were presided over by...

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Barbara Kay: A new documentary gives ammunition to the sugar-is-deadly warriors

May 30, 2018

For decades, the low-fat diet has been to health and weight as Marxism to political governance: a catastrophic failure. People are fatter and sicker than ever. Why? Because lowering fat intake resu...

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Do Toronto’s Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and the Toronto District School Board have a ‘Jewish Problem’? The Optics Are not Good

May 25, 2018

I grew up in Forest Hill Village, which was, and is, a posh Toronto neighbourhood. My sisters and I, therefore, spent our formative years in the Forest Hill public school system: first South Prep (...

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Barbara Kay: Hamas will always win the PR war, even as Israel wins the military victories

May 22, 2018

In his May 16 column, Terry Glavin takes Israel to task for the deaths and injuries of Gazan Palestinians sustained in the border clashes he concedes that Hamas orchestrated.Yes, Glavin understands...

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Barbara Kay: Israelis hold their fire as long as they can. Hamas writes cheques after mass suicides

May 18, 2018

There’s an old French proverb which, translated, reads: “This animal is very bad; when you attack it, it defends itself.” There is only one “animal” — politicall...

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When Trans fanaticism joins with Political Arrogance, Freedom of Expression is the Victim

May 15, 2018

Politics makes strange bedfellows, a truism I am presently experiencing in real time as I find myself on social media supporting TERFs – Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists – in their ...

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Barbara Kay: The embassy move only angers the usual suspects. Even the Arab leaders have bigger problems now

May 15, 2018

So Israel’s U.S. embassy is where it belongs: Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital. It took its sweet time getting there, but, thanks to the last person on Earth most Americans want to c...

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MP Christine Moore Reluctantly Provides NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh With a Teaching Moment in the Use of the Word “Survivor”

May 10, 2018

In a man-bites-dog version of the usual #MeToo pattern of male aggressor, female victim, NDP MP for Abitibi-Kamiskimingue Christine Moore has been accused of serious sexual misconduct. Unusual ...

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Barbara Kay: We’ve forgotten how bad Communism was. Identity politics reminds us

May 8, 2018

Ten days ago I heard Bill Browder speak at a packed fundraising event. Browder’s bestselling 2015 memoir, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justic...

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Status of Women Canada: Paints a Misleading Portrait of Muslim Women

May 1, 2018

At what point do you know that your country is, on the whole, “inclusive”? Would there have to be, say, zero hate incidents for three years before you could say you live in a tolerant c...

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Barbara Kay: Another cultural institution succumbs to Jordan Peterson hysteria

May 1, 2018

This Friday marks the 175th consecutive weekly “Free Raif Badawi” vigil in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where the imprisoned Saudi blogger’s family found asylum and have lived as permanent...

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Don’t Call Toronto’s Van Massacre “Misogynistic” and Here’s Why

April 25, 2018

At first, because the “van” is so often lone-wolf jihadism’s preferred agent for carnage, many Canadians assumed the Monday’s sidewalk massacre in Toronto’s Yonge-Finc...

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