22 Facts About Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Hillel Kay was born on 1968 and is a Canadian journalist.

Jonathan Kay was the editor-in-chief of The Walrus, and is a senior editor of Quillette.

Jonathan Kay was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the Toronto-based Canadian daily newspaper National Post, and continues to contribute to the newspaper on a freelance basis.

Jonathan Kay is a book author and editor, a public speaker, and a regular contributor to Commentary and the New York Post.

Jonathan Kay was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, to an anglophone Jewish family.

Jonathan Kay's mother is the socially conservative newspaper columnist Barbara Kay.

Jonathan Kay's father worked in finance and was the breadwinner of the family.

Jonathan Kay attended Selwyn House School, and Marianopolis College before obtaining a BEng and an MEng in metallurgical engineering from McGill University and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.

Jonathan Kay describes himself as an avid tennis and board game enthusiast, and sometimes has incorporated his passion for both pursuits into his journalism.

Jonathan Kay joined the National Post at its inception, in 1998, as a member of its editorial board, subsequently becoming the newspaper's Comment editor as well as a columnist.

Jonathan Kay left the newspaper's staff in 2014 but continues appearing in its pages as a freelance columnist.

Apart from his editorial work, Jonathan Kay has written two non-fiction books.

In 2007, Jonathan Kay co-authored The Volunteer, a biography of Mossad officer Michael Ross.

Jonathan Kay was a freelance editorial assistant on Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau's memoir Common Ground published by HarperCollins with duties that included conducting some of the interviews with Trudeau that were used for the book.

Since May 2018, Kay hosted Quillettes Wrongspeak podcast, along with Debra W Soh until she quit at the end of first series of episodes.

From February 2019, Jonathan Kay continued to present the podcast throughout the year.

Jonathan Kay was named editor-in-chief of The Walrus, a Canadian general interest magazine, on October 29,2014.

Jonathan Kay left the Post on November 21,2014, but continued to contribute opinion pieces on a freelance basis.

Jonathan Kay resigned as editor-in-chief of The Walrus on May 13,2017, following a controversy around cultural appropriation in which Kay argued that concerns by Indigenous writers about the practice should be balanced against the right to free artistic representation.

Jonathan Kay said the reason he left was because of conflicts between his role as a manager at a respected media brand and as a columnist and media panelist in which he would state controversial opinions and that he had felt the need to self-censor his byline pieces and commentary outside of The Walrus.

Jonathan Kay added that there had been no conflict between himself and the publisher of The Walrus and that he had been given a free hand to edit the magazine and its website and that the pressure he had felt to self-censor was in relation to his non-Walrus work.

Jonathan Kay is currently a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.