Jonathan Kay's Archives

Published features and op-eds (from earliest to latest)

Superheroes of the Melting Pot: Thoughts on the Movie, "Independence Day" (Saturday Night, November,1996)

Raskolnikov at the Bar: The Root of Lawyer Jokes (Published The National Law Journal, Jan. 13, 1997)
Washington Post follow-up (March 22, 1998)

New York Apartment Search (Montreal Gazette, September 27, 1997)

It's Time to split up Microsoft - Baby Bell Style (National Post, Nov., 1998)

New Windows Open on Microsoft Case (National Post, Dec. 6, 1999)

Peoplehood and Partition - Thoughts on Quebec Peoplehood (National Post, February,1999)

Marijuana: Legalize it (National Post, April,1999)

The Charms of Windsor (Windsor Star, Sept. 10, 1999)

Killing the Industry: World Anti-Tobacco Day 1999 (National Post, May 31,1999)

Indonesia experiments with freedom (National Post, June 7,1999)

Freedom from religion (National Post, July 5,1999)

Death and diamonds in Africa (National Post, July 12,1999)

Domestic violence is about more than numbers (National Post, July 21,1999)

Slavery in Sudan: Canada's involvement (National Post, August 20,1999)

Action against Sudan might bring about more 'humane world' (National Post, Nov. 26,1999)

DNA Testing: Not a threat (National Post, October 5,1999)

Body work: A profile of truck art (National Post, Jan. 18,1999)

The imminent catastrophe in Burundi (National Post, Jan. 31,1999)

Brian Kalt: Portrait of a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Contestant (National Post, March 8, 2000)

Homer J. Simpson: Comedy Icon (National Post, March 20, 2000)

I am ... Canadian (National Post, April 14, 2000)

Elian leads conservaties astray (National Post, April 27, 2000)

A look inside the strategic consulting industry (National Post Business Magazine, May, 2000)

Greed and grievance in Sri Lanka (National Post, June 19, 2000)

Archie loes his edge (National Post, July 1, 2000)

White rappers can't seem to get a break (National Post, Sept. 5, 2000)

John Hagelin: Don't count out the guy from Maharishi U (National Post, Sept. 8, 2000)

Caste of Characters: How Quebec and France translated Homer J. Simpson (Saturday Night, Sept. 9, 2000)

Making a Wish for Effective Charity (National Post, Sept. 16, 2000)

Mark Kingwell Profile (National Post, Sept. 30, 2000)

In Florida Election Decisions, Republicans See Double Standard (National Post, Nov. 15, 2000)

Euthanasia: The Dutch v. God (National Post, Dec. 4, 2000)

Profile of New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (Montreal Gazette, Dec., 2000)

How cold is it? Don't ask (National Post, Dec. 28, 2000)

FW: You're Fired (National Post Business Magazine, January, 2001)

So long suckers. My ship has come in (National Post, Dec. 26, 2000)

Twisted controversy over schoolboy essay (National Post, Dec. 27, 2000)

Betty Cooper: The Perfect Woman (National Post, Feb. 9, 2001)

University of Toronto law school goes global (National Post, March 1, 2001)

Two Buddhas are worth 1,000 Lenins (National Post, March 9, 2001)

Yves Michaud will have his day in court (National Post, April 14, 2001)

The Prime of Miss Naomi Klein (National Post, April 18, 2001)

The Honourable Answer Man (New Yorker, May 14, 2001) and accompanying quiz

The Multilateral schism between the United States and Europe (National review Online, June 15, 2001)

Gay Star Trek Fans (Salon.com, June 30, 2001)

A trip to the Webby awards (National Post, July, 2001)

Life as a Policy Position (National Post, August 3, 2001)

History of the Republic of Texas (Harper's Magazine, Sept., 2001)

Fighting gas with gas (Financial Post, Aug. 4, 2001)

The Road to Springfield - PDF version (National Post, Aug. 21, 2001) (Click here for text version)

Hommage to the Family Guy (Weekend Post, Sept. 1, 2001)

Original version of Sept. 12, 2001 National Post editorial on World Trade Center disaster

Harris and Klebold, writ large (National Post, Sept. 14, 2001)

The War Against the Enlightenment (editorial) (National Post, Sept. 17, 2001)

Blaming the U.S. -- Whitewashing terror (editorial created by Post editorial board) (National Post, Sept. 19, 2001)

Concordia university disgraced by its student union (National Post, Sept. 28, 2001)

Concordia students spiral into militancy (National Post, Oct. 6, 2001)

The Blowback Theory of Sept. 11 (National Post, Oct. 8, 2001)

Fighting Terrorism Is Its Own Reward (editorial) (National Post, Oct., 2001)

Bullets over Barristers (National Post, Oct. 13, 2001)
... as cited in OpinionJournal's Best of the Web

A Healthy Dose of Bigotry (National Post, Oct. 18, 2001)

Bert's Jihad (editorial created by Post editorial board) (National Post, Oct. 12, 2001)

Terror of Drugs? We Can't Wage War on Both (National Post, Oct. 29, 2001)

When You Defeat an Enemy (an interview with Caspar Weinberger) (National Post, Nov. 15, 2001)

The Case for Native Assimilation (National Post, Dec. 8, 2001)

The Charisma Economy (National Post Business Magazine, December, 2001)

2001 Year-End National Post editorial: "An Enlightening Year" (National Post, Dec. 8, 2001)

Review of CBS' First Monday (National Post, Jan. 17, 2002)

Al Qaeda fails Geneva Convention test (National Post, Jan. 23, 2002)

It doesn't hold water. Deconstructing the Walkerton Inquiry report (editorial, National Post, Jan. 22, 2002)

Why do lawyers work so hard? (Financial Post, Jan. 23, 2002)

From a doll to a rock to a bomb: Women return to terrorism in Israel (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30, 2002)
(Subsequently printed in the New York Post)

A New Law for a New War (editorial) (National Post, Feb. 5, 2002)

Conspiracy Theories of East and West (National Post, Feb. 6, 2002)

Israel's New Threat: The Lipstick Martyr (National Post, Jan. 30, 2002)

"Axis of Evil" threesome gets a fourth member (National Post, Feb. 14, 2002)

Breaking the taboo on the gay gender gap (National Post, March 13, 2002) 

Maternal instinct may be a killer (National Post, March 27, 2002) 

The Arab Summit: Petty disputes preclude peace (National Post, March 28, 2002)
... as cited on OpinionJournal's Best of the Web

Ramallah invasion, isolation of Arafat, are aimed at toppling his corrupt rule (National Post, March 30, 2002)

JK News feature: Sharon squeezed from both left and right (National Post, April 1, 2002)

Southam editorial: Arafat's Apocalyptic Creed (National Post, April 2, 2002)

In the Middle East, the language of peace is not shared (National Post, April 10, 2002)

Welfare traps collide on Miramichi Bay (National Post, April 24, 2002)

To the sound of bombs, Israel's left wakes up (National Post, May 8, 2002)

Israel's White-Collar Army (National Post, May 20, 2002)

When an embryo's rights trump a fetus's (National Post, May 22, 2002)

Kyoto: Both Sides Have it Wrong (National Post, June 5, 2002)

Profile of Montreal's Vestibules comedy troupe (National Post, June 7, 2002)

A Better Life for Natives -- A Whiter One Too (National Post, June 19, 2002)

Bush's Oslo III Plan is an Impossible Dream (National Post, June 25, 2002)

Waiting for the Other Plane to Drop (National Post, July 3, 2002)
(Appeared July 8 in The Washington Times)

How to Treat Terrorists (National Post editorial, July 5, 2002)

A Quarter-Pounder ... of Sugar (National Post, July 17, 2002)

Wall Street Reaps What it Sowed (National Post, July 25, 2002)

Multiculturalism's Latest Victim (National Post, July 31, 2002) (.PDF format)

Ottawa Can't Ban Good Medicine (National Post, Aug. 14, 2002)

In Johannesburg, activists sow false fears (National Post, Aug. 28, 2002)

Greek wedding, WASP roast (National Post, Sept. 7, 2002)

Netanyahu is the victim (National Post, Sept. 10, 2002)

Bush's Iraq speech: Less a cowboy than a sheriff (National Post, Sept. 13, 2002)

Sept. 11, Chretien's Version (National Post editorial, Sept. 13, 2002)

Hating Israel is part of campus culture (National Post and Campus-Watch.org, Sept. 25, 2002)

Canada's pacifists: Don't they ever get tired of being wrong? (National Post editorial, Sept. 27, 2002)

Iraq: What this war is really about (National Post, Oct. 9, 2002)

I've got a lot of time for John Manley (National Post, Oct. 15, 2002)

Separatism killed the Expos (National Post, Oct. 23, 2002)

Ayub case shows need for profiling (National Post, Oct. 31, 2002)

Keep Mosque and State Separate in Turkey  (National Post, Nov. 6, 2002)

Osama's Alive. Who cares? (National Post, Nov.20, 2002)

Managing the latest Intifada (National Post, Dec. 4, 2002)

My identity crisis (National Post, Dec. 18, 2002)

Has Islamism hit its high water mark? (National Post, Dec. 31, 2002)

This war is not about oil (National Post editorial, Jan. 4, 2003)

The Discredited Death Penalty (National Post, Jan. 15, 2003)

The Middle East's other refugees (National Post, Jan. 20, 2003)

Cutting through the fog of war (National Post, Jan. 29, 2003)

The French Aren't Cowards (National Post, Feb. 19, 2003) (and unpublished rebuttal to critics)

When 'junk science' hurts minorities (National Post, Feb. 26, 2003)

Michigan politicians talk trash (Financial Post, Feb. 27, 2003)

Remaking the Arab World (National Post editorial, March 1, 2003)

Profile of Harvard Business School (National Post Business Magazine, March 2003)

Talking about a Revolution (National Post, March 12, 2003)

Anti-Semitism: The New Call of the Left -- a symposium with Michael Lerner, Judith Klinghoffer, Leonard Dinnerstein and Jon Kay (FrontPageMagazine.com March 14, 2003)

The Palestinians of Iraq (National Post, March 26, 2003)

I want my A-JTV (National Post, April 9, 2003)

Her pen is mightier than his sword (National Post, April 23, 2003)

Putting war criminals first? (National Post, May 7, 2003)

Real access for band members (National Post, May 28, 2003)

For the Right, another chance lost (National Post, June 4, 2003)

The Scandal of Diversity (Commentary Magazine, June, 2003)

    ... subsequently discussed in an exchange of letters in Commentary, October, 2003

Shooting the breeze in Las Vegas (National Post, June 7, 2003)

The CBC must drop the propaganda (National Post, June 18, 2003)

Politically, Britain feels a lot like home (National Post, July 2, 2003)

Defaming Islam -- one bomb at a time (National Post, July 16, 2003)

Building democracy on the ground in Iraq (National Post, July 29, 2003)

Bush called Saddam's Bluff (National Post, Aug. 7, 2003)

Trent University's Problem Professor (National Post, Aug. 9, 2003)

Taking the sting out of flying (National Post, Aug. 27, 2003)

Concordia -- One year later (National Post, Sept. 4, 2003)
Terrorists and Palestinian society feed off one another (National Post, Sept. 12, 2003)

Cutting it fine in the Old City (National Post, Sept 17, 2003)

Can a good fence make good neighbours (National Post, Sept. 20, 2003)

Terror goes po-mo (National Post, Sept. 20, 2003)

Edward Said: Selling Palestinian Grief (National Post, Oct. 3, 2003)

Admit it: There are no WMDs to find (National Post, Oct. 17, 2003)

Wanted: a leader who can win it all (National Post, Oct. 24, 2003)

Too much information (National Post, Oct. 31, 2003)

So-cons can only go so far (National Post, Nov. 14, 2003)

Iraq: Where are we headed? -- a symposium with Victor David Hanson, Khalid Al-Dakhil and Jon Kay (FrontPageMagazine.com Nov. 21, 2003)

The fence changes everything (National Post, Nov. 28, 2003)

The World According to Rocco (National Post, Dec. 12, 2003)
Christmas with the in-laws (National Post, Dec. 26, 2003)

Year One of the Arab Enlightenment (National Post, Dec. 27, 2003)

The Mideast fuels campus firebrands (National Post, Jan. 9, 2004)

Mad Cow reaches absurd levels of hysteria (National Post, Jan. 17, 2004)

    ... also published in the New York Sun

Complacency is a terrorist's best friend (National Post, Jan. 23, 2004)

An anti-corporate snuff film (National Post, Feb. 6, 2004)

Our gay competitive advantage (National Post, Feb. 20, 2004)

Celibacy is at the root of priestly child abuse (National Post, March 5, 2004)

Should business schools teach ethics? (National Post Business Magazine, March, 2004)

Analysis of the killing of Hamas' Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (National Post, March 24, 2004)

Gas it too cheap for our own good (National Post, March 25, 2004)

The future of Saudi-U.S. relations (National Post, March 27, 2004)

The future of the House of Saud (National Post, April 1, 2004)

Redefining the terrorist (The National Interest, Spring, 2004)

Censoring the truth in the war on drugs (National Post, April 2, 2004)

The school for no scandal (National Post Business Magazine, April, 2004)

Book chapter: The pretend universe of the multilateralist, Ch. 21 of Independence in the Age of Empire, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, April, 2004

In Iraq, pride trumps freedom (National Post, April 16, 2004)

Words cannot disguise Saudi intolerance (National Post, April 22, 2004)

The Real Deal: JK reviews six entries from the upcoming Toronto Hot Docs documentary film festival (National Post, April 23, 2004)

What Sudan says about Iraq (National Post, April 30, 2004)

From Britain, Comedy's Saviour (National Post, May 8, 2004)

Bloody images bring out our true colours (National Post, May 14, 2004)

Paul Martin's ad isn't anti-American (National Post, May 28, 2004)

Dangerous Baby (National Post, July 24, 2004)

From tent city, lessons on homelessness (National Post, Aug 6, 2004)

In praise of liberal imperialism (National Post, Aug 13, 2004)

The best offer they'll ever get (National Post, Aug 27, 2004)

Is the Age of Oil coming to an end? (National Post, Oct. 2, 2004)

The National Post and Islam (National Post, Oct. 12, 2004)

Life without Arafat (National Post editorial, Nov. 8, 2004)

Does Canada stand for anything? (National Post editorial, Feb. 26, 2005)

Why the war on drugs can never be won (National Post editorial, March 4, 2005)

The sage of Fresno (Weekly Standard, March 14, 2005) + follow-up letters

Censorship through Murder, National Post, July 18
Listen to the Imams, National Post, July 12
Leave Africa to the experts, National Post, July 6
Don't worry: Marriage is safe, National Post, June 29
Listen to Europe's rural skeptics, National Post, June 4

The right way to pick judges, National Post, July 21

Where's Canada's John McCain?, National Post, July 30

Flirting with the dark side, National Post, August 8, 2005

Keep on strollin', National Post, Sept. 6, 2005

A moment of shame for The Globe and Mail, National Post, Sept. 14, 2005

Lessons from Kashechewan, National Post, November 21, 2005)

A clash of cultures, National Post, Feb 4., 2006

Ariel Sharon's World, National Post, Feb. 13, 2006

Natural childbirth? No thanks, National Post, Feb. 20, 2006

In Iraq, a death blow to optimism, National Post, Feb. 23,2006

The windbag party, National Post, Feb. 27, 2006

Out of the mouths of babes, National Post, March 6, 2006

From the academy, portraits of pathology, National Post, March 13, 2006

Preparing for our Black Hawk Down moment, National Post, March 20, 2006

Canada needs an abortion law, National Post, March 27, 2006

Making peace behind barbed wire, National Post, March 29, 2006

A profile of New York cafe, National Post April 1, 2006

Censorship in the name of human rights, National Post, April 3, 2006

North America's health-care convergence, National Post, April 10, 2006

Separatism goes sterile, National Post, April 17, 2006

April 24, 2006 National Post column: Confessions of a 'crunchy con'
 April 28, 2006 National Post column: The Globe gets suckered - again
May 1, 2006 National Post column: The true cause of ghetto crime
May 8, 2006 National Post column: The Canadian champ you've (probably) never heard of

May 15, 2006 National Post column: Patients' rights vs. a father's anguish

May 30, 2006 National Post column: CUPE's bigoted agenda

June 6, 2006 National Post column: Terror and tolerance

June 13, 2006 National Post column: Islam as goth

July 4, 2006 National Post column: Dora the Explorer versus the Crows of Pearblossom

July 11, 2006 National Post column on slavery: The global roots of an ancient evil
July 18, 2006 National Post column on Hezbollah-Israel war: Hijacked by hatred

July 25, 2006 National Post column: Where are the Lebanese patriots?

July 27, 2006 National Post column: Now is not the time to stop

August 1, 2006 National Post column: The moral vanity of Canada's 'honest brokers'

August 8, 2006 National Post column: How Israel fights

August 15, 2006 National Post column: Sacha's love letter

September 5, 2006 National Post column: Your name here

September 11, 2006 National Post editorial: 9/11+5

September 12, 2006 National Post column on Winnie Mandela: Questions for a 'woman of distinction'

Sept. 19, 2006 National Post column: Why we're losing

Sept. 26, 2006 National Post column: That's Doctor Seuss to you

Oct. 10, 2006 National Post column on North Korea's missile test: A blessing in disguise
Oct. 17, 2006 National Post column: Confessions of a misguided hawk
Oct. 24, 2006 National Post column: Mad dogs and Englishmen

Oct. 31, 2006 National Post column: The Stardust at Twilight

Nov. 7, 2006 National Post column: Gag me with a champagne flute

Nov. 14, 2006 National Post column: Shutting down Kashechewan
Nov. 21, 2006 National Post column: From women to womyn to women
 Nov. 28, 2006 National Post column: Louise Arbour vs. Israel

Dec. 5, 2006 National Post column: Scenes from an emergency room

Dec. 12, 2006 National Post column: Inside the mind of a Holocaust denier
Jan. 11, 2007 National Post editorial: Can Iraq be saved?
Jan. 9, 2007 National Post column: Lessons of a Molecatcher's daughter
Dec. 19, 2006 National Post column: Farewell to a multilateral automaton
Jan. 16, 2007 National Post online column: The world needs more 'i'
Jan. 16, 2007 National Post column: An able advocate for the Palestinian cause
Jan. 14, 2007 National Post editorial: The Toronto Star's poverty scam
January 23, 2007 National Post column: Thy rod and thy staff
January 30, 2007 National Post column: Taking notes while Iraq falls apart
Feb. 6, 2007 National Post column: Too much tech
Feb. 13 National Post column: Death by preservation
Feb. 20 National Post column: And now, the good news
Feb. 27 National Post column: Nation security vs. Liberal ethno-politics
March 6, 2007 National Post column: It's official: I'm middle aged
 March 13 National Post column: Black heroes of the cola wars

March 20 National Post column on Ron Jeremy: Porn's philosopher king
March 27, 2007 National Post column on Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think: Six words that can save your life

April 3, 2007 National Post column on Cathy Seipp: Cathy Seipp versus the Internet creep
April 10, 2007 National Post column: Jewish brainpower is a mixed blessing
April 17, 2007 National Post column: Pro-choice shouldn't mean pro-censorship
April 20, 2007 National Post column: Why June Callwood is my political hero
April 27, 2007 National Post column: Multiculturalism, R.I.P. (1982-2007)
May 1, 2007 National Post column: This is a war, not a grad seminar
May 8, 2007 National Post column: At a restaurant near you, the war between daters and breeders

May 15, 2007 National Post column: Send in the Assmonkeys
May 29, 2007 National Post column: Jenin comes to Lebanon. So where is the outrage?
June 12, 2007 National Post column: Al Gore: Man of action
June 8, 2007 National Post column: The tantalizing question: What if?
June 5, 2007 National Post column: Six days that changed the Arab world forever
July 3, 2007 National Post column: Meet Farfour, Hamas' deadly mascot
July 17, 2007 National Post column: Managing Islam's civil war
July 24, 2007 National Post column: From small-town Ontario, a preacher who changed America

July 27, 2007 National Post column: The reason that innocents get prosecuted

July 31, 2007 National Post column: Our non-cheating hearts

August 7, 2007 National Post column: Michael Ignatieff's failed mea culpa
Lawyers deserve our pity, not our scorn (National Post, Aug. 14, 2007)
The dark genius of Hezbollah (National Post, Aug. 16, 2007)
The (ancient) genius of Facebook (National Post, Sept. 4, 2007)
John Tory's problem: Too much rubber chicken (National Post, Sept. 11, 2007)
The secret of Naomi's success (National Post, Sept. 13, 2007)
And now, the really, really, really good news (National Post, Sept. 18, 2007)
From a 17th-centuty soap opera, lessons for modern historians (National Post, Sept. 25, 2007)
At the Globe and CBC, guerillas with tenure (National Post, Oct. 2, 2007)
Full of moxie but out of print (National Post, Oct. 9, 2007)
The disgrace of Ann Coulter (National Post. Oct. 16, 2007)
Off the reservation (National Post, Oct. 23, 2007)
In defence of Herouxville (National Post, Oct. 30, 2007)
A sad adieu to ye olde porn shoppe (National Post, Nov. 6, 2007)
The revolutionary force of creative destruction (National Post, Nov. 13, 2007)
Preaching the leadership gospel of JFK (National Post, Nov. 17, 2007)
Anti-racism's dangerous dinosaurs (National Post. Nov. 20, 2007)
The courage of the blood traitors (National Post, Nov. 27, 2007)
Save the world, dump Kyoto (National Post, Dec. 4, 2007)
Don't follow your heart (National Post, Dec. 11, 2007)
The true enemy: Human tribalism (National Post, Dec. 18, 2007)
John McCain for President (National Post, Jan. 8, 2008)
How Falconer hoodwinked the Toronto Star (National Post, Jan. 15, 2008)

In Fear of Xenu: How Tom Cruise made Scientology even weirder (National Post, Jan. 18, 2008)

The Freedom Doctrine, RIP (National Post, Jan. 22, 2008)
The enduring masterpiece Heath Ledger left behind (National Post, Jan. 25, 2008)
 On abortion, how late is too late? (National Post, Jan. 29, 2008)

Marcus Luttrell's noble Christian soul (National Post, Feb. 5, 2008)
The Fetishization of Hatred (National Post, Feb. 8, 2008)

In our sexual fantasies, dark visions of the uncensored id (National Post, Feb. 9, 2008)

Ghetto godfather: Sudhir Venkatesh and lessons from a Chicago gang leader (National Post, Feb. 12, 2008)
Outlook for Canada, 2008: Center for International Relations Global Perspectives
February 26, 2008 National Post column: Free speech, hate speech, and the Jews
March 1, 2008 National Post column on Chuck Cadman: Forget who said what: The Cadman scandal is bogus
March 4, 2008 National Post column on Brijit: Expressing my inner child -- in 100 words or less
March 11, 2008 National Post column: Gary Gygax's world (and why I left it)
March 18, 2008 National Post column on the 'Tibetan Intifada': Jimmy Carter, call your office
March 25, 2008 National Post column: How to turn a neo-Nazi into a free-speech martyr
March 28, 2008 National Post column: A disaster for Canada's human Rights Commission
April 1, 2008 National Post column: A toddler martyred to native identity
April 8, 2008 National Post column: Gay or straight, sexual orientation is in your blood
April 10, 2008 National Post column: Ontario's spooky thought police
April 15, 2008 National Post column on Passover: Goodbye Swiper the Fox, hello mean old Pharaoh
April 22, 2008 National Post column: A fine line between jihad and insanity
April 29, 2008 National Post column on CUPW: Here's an idea: Just deliver the damn mail
May 6, 2008 National Post column: Using a Taser? Aim low
May 13, 2008 National Post column: Selwyn House -- then and now
May 21, 2008 National Post column: Why suck up to the UN?
May 27, 2008 National Post column: The cruelest form of racism
June 4, 2008 National Post column on legalizing marijuana: Romancing the bottle
June 10, 2008 National Post column on the ebbing of jihad: Robespierre's path
June 11, 2008 commentary article for BBC News: Send Corey Glass back to the United States
June 24, 2008 National Post column: Angry men in tennis shoes
 

Book reviews        

Robert Harris - Archangel (National Post, Dec. 26, 1998) 

David Cesarani - Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (National Post, Jan. 22, 1999) 

George Soros - The Collapse of Global Capitalism (National Post, Jan. 29, 1999) 

Al Franken - Why Not Me? (National Post, Feb. 22, 1999) 

Tony Judt - The Burden of Responsibility (National Post, March 16, 1999) 

A. Alan Borovoy: The New Anti-Liberals (National Post, April, 1999) 

Stephen Holmes & Cass Sunstein - The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (National Post, June, 1999) 

Bob Woodward - Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate 1974-99 (National Post, July, 1999) 

Francois Furet - The passing of an illusion: The idea of communism in the 20th century (National Post, Octover 9, 1999) 

Amy Knight - Who killed Kirov? (National Post, Jan. 8, 2000) 

Pat Buchanan - A Republic, Not an Empire (Cite Libre, March, 2000) 

The Power of Positive Confrontation by Barbara Pachter with Susan Magee; and The Etiquette Advantage By Peggy Post & Peter Post 

Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community By (National Post, May, 2000) 

Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman - Denying history: who says the holocaust never happened? (National Post, July, 2001) 

John R. MacArthur - The Selling of 'Free Trade' (National Post, August 4, 2001)
(cited as part of JK's 2001 National Newspaper nomination in field  of Critical Writing)

Margaret Somerville - The Ethical Canary: Science, Society & The Human Spirit (National Post, Nov. 11, 2001)
(cited as part of JK's 2001 National Newspaper nomination in field  of Critical Writing)

Jack Layton - Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis (National Post, Jan. 6, 2001)

The History of Britian, 3000 BC -- AD 1603 (National Post, Feb. 3, 2001) (cited for 2001 National Newspaper Award nomination) 

Lewis Lapham - Lights, Camera, Democracy! (National Post, May 5, 2001) (cited for 2001 National Newspaper Award nomination)

Warren Kinsella - Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (National Post, Sept. 29, 2001) (cited for 2001 National Newspaper Award nomination)

Staurt Banner -- The Death Penalty: An American History (Commentary Magazine, June 2002)

Stephen Wolfram - A New Kind of Science (National Post, June 8, 2002)

Democracy by Decree: What happens when courts run government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod (Commentary Magazine, Jan. 2003)

Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans, by Heather Mac Donald (Commentary Magazine, April 2003)

Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice by Sol Stern (Commentary Magazine, July/Aug. 2003)
Coercing Virtue: The worldwide rule of judges by Robert Bork (Commentary Magazine, Nov. 2003)

Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel (New York Post, Nov. 2, 2003)

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken (National Post, Nov. 22, 2003)
The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen (Commentary Magazine, January, 2004)

Reinventing the Melting Pot by Tamar Jacoby (Commentary Magazine, February, 2004)

Arafat's War by Efraim Karsh (New York Post, February 8, 2004)

Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein (New York Post, April 4, 2004)

Gay Marriage, by Jonathan Rauch (National Post, May 22, 2004)

Peace Kills by P.J. O'Rourke (National Post, June 5, 2004)

Gag Rule by Lewis Lapham (National Post, July 24, 2004)

It's the Crude, dude by Linda McQuaig (National Post, Sept. 18, 2004)

What's the matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank (Commentary Magazine, November, 2004)

Miracle Cure by Sally Pipes (Commentary Magazine, Jan. 2005)

Home Alone America by Mary Eberstadt (Commentary Magazine, Feb. 2005)

South Park Conservatives by Brian Anderson (Commentary Magazine, July-August 2005)

Dying to Win by Robert Pape (Commentary Magazine, Sept. 2005)

The Weekly Standard: A reader (New York Post, Sept. 25, 2005)

The Chosen, by Jerome Karabel (Commentary Magazine, Jan., 2006)

Loss of Faith by Kim Bolan (New York Post, Feb. 12, 2006)

The Professors, by David Horowitz (Commentary Magazine, May, 2006)

Can she be stopped? by John Podhoretz (Commentary Magazine, July-August, 2006)

Crunchy cons by Rod Dreher (Commentary Magazine, Sept., 2006)
America Alone by Mark Steyn (New York Post, Oct. 29, 2006)
Dec. 2006 Commentary book review: What terrorists want by Louise Richardson
 March, 2007 Commentary book review: The Best Intentions by James Traub
 April 2007 Commentary book review: The future of marriage, by David Blankenhorn
June, 2007 Political Mavens Book review of Ali Allawi's Winning the war, losing the peace
 Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine (Commentary Magazine, December, 2007)
Bjorn Lomborg's Cool It (Commentary Magazine, January, 2008)

 

Audiobook reviews

Elmore Leonard's Be cool - Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Wayne Johnston's The Divine Ryans - Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (National Post, April, 1999)

The Tripp/Lewinsky Tapes - Jane Austen's Mansfield Park - Maeve Binchy's Tara Road - Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky (National Post, May, 1999)

Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek - Martin Cruz's Havana Bay - Miriam Margolyes' Dickens' Women - Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life (National Post, June, 1999)

John Keegan's The First World War - Jackie Collins' Dangerous Kiss - Suzanne Finnamore's Otherwise engaged (National Post, August, 1999)

George Stephanopoulos: All too human - Mordecai Richler: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Margaret Laurence: The Stone Angel (National Post, Sept., 1999)

Julian Barnes: England, England - The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England - P.G. Wodehouse: Carry on Jeeves (National Post, Oct., 1999)

Desmond Morris: Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan - George Bush: All The Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings (National Post, Dec. 4, 1999)

Gail Sheehy: Hillary's Choice - Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol - Stephen King: Blood and Smoke (National Post, Dec. 25, 1999

Misty Bernall: She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall - Michael Crichton: Timeline - Robertson Davies: Leaven of Malice (National Post, Feb. 5, 2000)

Customers.com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond by Patricia Seybold. Selling the Wheel: The Story of World-Class Salespeople by Jeff Cox. Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett (National Post, March 8, 2000)

Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty and Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos (National Post, April 3, 2004)

The World According to Mister Rogers and 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, by Mark Kurlansky (National Post, May 15, 2004)

James Suroweicki's The Wisdom of Crowds and 35th anniversary recording of CBC's As It Happens (National Post, July 3, 2004)

David Sedaris' Dress your family in corduroy and denim and The Bastard on the couch (National Post, Aug 15, 2004)

 

Television reviews

Joey (National Post, Oct 6, 2004)

Corner Gas (National Post, Oct 13, 2004)

Jack & Bobby (National Post, Oct 20, 2004)

Tax Articles

Transfer of U.S. Vacation Property to a Canadian Corporation – A Successful Strategy to Avoid U.S. Estate Tax? (Published Tax Management International Journal, April 10, 1998)

Kohler Co. Upsets Liberal Section 1504(d) Interpretation Established in U.S. Padding (Published Tax Management International Journal, Dec. 12, 1997)

Laidlaw Transportation, Inc. and Subsidiaries v. Comr.: A Cautionary Tale (Published Tax Management International Journal, August, 1998)

Ontario's Probate Fees Are Unconsitutional (Published National Post, November, 1998)

Paul Martin errects iron curtain-style departure tax around Canada (National Post, March, 1999)

 

Unpublished artifacts

 

An open letter to Morton's steakhouse (Dec., 2003)

The up-side of Mahathir Mohamad's comments (October, 2003)

Jon Kay 2003 calendar: The Essential Dude (password protected)

An open letter from Jon to Bruce (Aug. 1, 2002)

Jon Kay's first essay ever (circa 1973)

Essay on Black Hawk Down (2002)

Al Qaeda's trip to Guantanamo (2002)

Local man Suddenly Likes Anqtiquing (Planet Jon, 2000)

Ask a Half-Life DMC Weapons FAQ Author (Bruce) (Omnivore Toronto, 2001)

A Trip to Burger King: A bittersweet piece of écriture-verité concerning America's favorite fast-food restaurant (1995)

An Open Letter to the Designers of Sega's "Daytona 500" (1996)

Apple-Picking: Faux-Proletarian Sham (1997)

The greatest 28 music albums of all time (1995)

A Book Review of Roger Azzam's Latest Oevre (1997) (password protected)

The Myth of the Funny Jew (1997)

Prison Sex (password protected)

The Tax Lawyer Jew: Society's greatest discrimination victim (1997)

Les Expos aux Virginie? Yes sir! (1996)

Revolutionary Expos Manifesto (1995)

Hockey the Debased, Baseball the Virtuous (1996)

Speeches, TV appearances and gossip

Address to winners of the 2000 First Fruits competition, Jewish Public Library, Montreal, May 17, 2000

Speech to the 2001 Afterword conference, Toronto, May 13, 2001

Address to National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association of Canada, June 1, 2001

A very funny "MouthJournal.com" critique of one of my CBC CounterSpin television appearances (2001)

Speech to Ontario Insurance Institute on subject of e-mail misuse (pegged to Jan., 2001 NPBusiness story), Toronto, Oct. 3, 2001

(By Ronald Kay) Eulogy for Marika Kupitsky (aka Marika Kupitskaya), delivered in Montreal, Feb. 28, 2002

JK commentary on Global national news, March 25, 2002

Frank Magazine feature, July 24, 2002: Canada's Top Egomaniac 

Speech to the Association of Canadian Studies' conference on September 11th, 2001: The Impact and Aftermath for Canadians (9/14/2002)

J. Kay 11/30  Dvar Torah at Congregation Dorshei Emet in Montreal: Modern Egypt and the story of JosephSpeech to first year class of University of Toronto Law School on Law and Terrorism (Nov. 7, 2002)

Predictions for 2003: Presentation to Outlook 2003, Vancouver. B.C.

U.S. Annexation of Canada: How close to de facto, how far from de jure, address to American Bar Association, International Section, Houston, TX, Oct. 14, 2004
Jan. 28, 2008 speech at Hart House, University of Toronto on "Happiness in a Digital Age"
Speech to anti-Racism conference, University of Toronto, November 2007
A report on Jon Kay's speech to Selwyn House at Career Day, April 30, 2008

Sports, video games and gadgets

Thoughts on the New Expos Stadium (Financial Post, October 7, 1998)

Hockey night in jeoprady - why Canadian teams should get subisdies (National Post, March,1999)

Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame (National Post, October 28, 1999)

A profile of adult video game junkies (National Post, March 6,1999)

Gloom and Doom: A defense of video games (National Post, May,1999)

Pandora's Box and Tetris: Are women drawn to 'order' in vid-gaming? (www.myvideogames.com, Dec., 1999)

On-line gaming: Kid vs. Adult (www.myvideogames.com, October 24, 1999)

MAMEs, a Blast from the Past (www.myvideogames.com, March, 2000)

MAME article -- Pursuit magazine version (Pursuit Magazine, Summer, 2001)

The Panty Raider Revolt (www.myvideogames.com, May, 2000)

Videogame 'Trailers' (www.myvideogames.com, Jan., 2000)

Review of Steven Poole's Trigger Happy (www.myvideogames.com, Aug., 2000)

What was history's first video game? (National Post, June, 2000)

Are Video Games Bad For Your Health? (National Post, July, 2000)

Should videogamers vote GOP? (www.myvideogames.com, Aug., 2000)

Baby Moses, the Human Football (National Post, Sept. 30, 2000)

To the rich go the spoils: A statistical analysis of sports salries (National Post, Oct. 28, 2000)

The Post-Columbine Videogame witch-hunt (www.myvideogames.com, Jan., 2000)

Review of MP3 Players (National Post, Nov. 11, 2000)

The Worst Videogame of all time (www.myvideogames.com, April, 2001)

The most addictive videogame of all time (www.myvideogames.com, July, 2001)

Can videogames change the world? (www.myvideogames.com, Sept. 24, 2001)

Nazi protagonists make an appearance in videogames (New York Times, Jan. 3, 2002)
(Was also picked up in the International Herald Tribune, Jan. 9, 2002)
See also this follow-up January 17 letter in the New York Times

Review of The Sims Online (National Post, Dec. 14, 2002)

 

Perspectives on George Orwell and Free Speech

"Loss of liberty is inimical to all forms of literature....In western Europe and America large sections of the literary intelligentsia have either passed through the communist Party or have been warmly sympathetic to it, but this whole leftward movement has produced extraordinarily few books worth reading. Orthodox Catholicism, again, seems to have a crushing effect upon certain literary forms, especially the novel. During a period of three hundred years, how many people have been at once good novelists and good Catholics? The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition."

- George Orwell, The Prevention of Literature