Iran is not Saudi Arabia’s biggest problem.

Marc Miller spread misinformation about unmarked graves and supports the criminal prosecution of residential-school ‘denialists.’ Why would Mark Carney use him to front his new plan for regulating online content?

In the 29th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the birth of Montreal in 1642; and the Indigenous town of Sillery, where a new kind of native-born Christianity took root.

The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.

When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.

How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias

David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.

British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.

Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.

Iona Italia talks to lawyer and historian Adam Wakeling about the enduring importance of Enlightenment values and how to defend them today.

The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.

British liberals exclude reactionary cranks like Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur because they don’t have the stomach for a fight.

Hava Mendelle — army veteran, nurse, and co-founder of Minority Impact — speaks with Zoe Sankey about antisemitism in Australia, the red-green alliance, October 7th, and why she left the activist left behind.

The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.

This case shows how quickly tragedy becomes raw material for those who seek to exploit it.

Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the country Russia expected to defeat in a matter of days.

Journalists should resolve to treat their Indigenous sources as real-life human beings—as opposed to mystic savants who channel sacred and unfalsifiable ‘knowings’

What is consciousness for?

Jewish testimonies before Australia's Royal Commission paint a portrait of a culture already transformed—one in which Jewishness has become a professional and social liability

Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.

Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.

We judge sex crimes according to archetype, not evidence.

May 30 2026

It's hard to convey to a non-track person how slow this meet was. Even for people past their prime.

Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.

Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.

Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.

Contemporary anti-Zionism encodes a totalising worldview that blends the tributaries of Nazi, communist, and Islamist anti-Zionism into a single stream.

A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.

The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.

Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.

From the murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl to Melbourne's tobacco wars, Andrew Bushnell joins Zoe Sankey to examine the human cost of Australia's broken justice system.

Five years after it helped promote a nationwide social panic over ‘unmarked graves,’ the Globe & Mail admits those graves might not actually exist—while also suggesting that it doesn’t really matter anyway.

A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.

A new book about Stephen King’s early novels will only appeal to hardcore fans, but its very existence is a reminder of its subject’s incalculable cultural impact.

May 23 2026

Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Yale Law School professor Sarath Sanga, co-author of a new ⁠report⁠ explaining why the American public is losing trust in the country’s colleges and universities.

Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.

My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.

Creating NGOs that misuse the language of human rights is an effective strategy for advancing terrorist goals.

In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.

Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.

What radar and jet propulsion were to World War Two, robotics and artificial intelligence will be to the next war between great powers.

Bragging about my PhD to general indifference during the second-most humiliating day of my life.

Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.

Investigating abuse is a duty. Laundering propaganda is not.

CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.