Jonathan Kay
@quillette editor, writer, podcaster. Author. Advisor to @fairforall_org & @FSU_Canada. ex-lawyer -engineer -coder. Lapsed Jew. Gamer. Problematic Canadian.
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5 days ago |
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay
In 2017, a Greek Cypriot policy wonk named Varnavas Timotheou got the idea to create an “educational board game based on the academic principles of political sciences, political economy, and economics.” As elevator pitches go, it sounds like a complete dud. And yet, the game he ultimately produced in 2023, Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory, has been a huge commercial success, and now ranks as the 45th most popular title on the widely followed BoardGameGeek web site.
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3 weeks ago |
moderndiplomacy.eu | Jonathan Kay
As the third-largest democracy in the world, Indonesia elected the president and his vice through large-scale elections earlier last year. Many experts and survey bodies expected the election to be two rounds, but their predictions were incorrect. The outcomes resulted in Prabowo and Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s victory by a significant margin of 58%.
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3 weeks ago |
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay
Welcome to the Quillette Podcast, which is usually hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. And this week, our recent theme of culture-war bizarro turnabout continues, with yet more tales of conservatives encouraging an illiberal—my guest might even say authoritarian—approach to higher education.
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1 month ago |
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay
What follows is the twenty-sixth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. In our last instalment, we looked at how France began rebuilding its colonies in Quebec and Acadia, territories that had been temporarily occupied by English and Scottish interlopers during the Anglo-French War of 1627–29. This time, we’ll be looking at this period from the perspective of France’s Indigenous allies in the region.
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1 month ago |
quillette.com | Jonathan Kay
Australia and Canada share many similarities, both being large, resource-rich, politically progressive members of the Anglosphere. But they differ in at least one critical respect: In Canada, unlike Australia, our economic livelihood is critically dependent on a much larger neighbour.
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We passed peak social justice about three years ago. But there are parts of Canada, especially in British Columbia, that really do still resemble a Portlandia sketch. https://t.co/rDhIev82o3 https://t.co/aBb27obr0q
I don't know if the movie will be any good, but it’s the best trailer ever
hezbollah, 1982-2024: "the unholy Zionist demons have opened the gates of hell and will now hellishly experience our hell-like hellfire" hezbollah, 2025: "Oh wow, good luck with that, ayatollahs. Not our fight. Crazy times, rite?" https://t.co/KCWqg1arKp
