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Barbara Kay

Barbara Kay is a weekly columnist for the National Post. She lives in Montreal. Follow her on Twitter at @BarbaraRKay.
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Politics

Pit Bulls Are Not Our Friends

May 1, 2017March 23, 2022 - by Barbara Kay

Despite what activists argue, statistics show that the dogs are dangerous and should be banned

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Mary Tyler Moore Defined TV Feminism for All Who Followed

January 26, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Barbara Kay

Her landmark show captured the spirit of feminism at its happy, confident apex in the 1970s—a far cry from today’s darker, sexualized fare

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Society

Psychiatry’s Chosen People

January 19, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Barbara Kay

Jews have always had a special fascination with Freud’s theories—no one more so than my own mother

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Books

Crucible of Grief

July 3, 2016April 4, 2022 - by Barbara Kay

Elie Wiesel gave me a renewed faith in the survival of the Jewish people–with or without God’s help, with or without God

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World

Our Man in Tehran

October 16, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Barbara Kay

Ken Taylor didn’t just help rescue six Americans. He changed the way Canadians think about themselves

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Health

Head Cases

August 31, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Barbara Kay

Memories of Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), the fragile genius who changed the way we think about the human brain

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Books

E. L. Doctorow, 1931–2015

July 27, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Barbara Kay

The fox in the tree leaves

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Society

Alan Borovoy (1932–2015)

May 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Barbara Kay

Civil liberties champion—and bachelor—to the very end

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