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Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is a journalist who writes about a range of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and the arts. He is the music critic of The New Criterion. He is a senior resident fellow at the Renew Democracy Initiative, and a contributor to its publication, The Next Move. His guests are from the worlds of politics and culture, talking about the most important issues of the day, and some pleasant trivialities as well.
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Episodes
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Political Feast, with J-Mart
If there is someone who knows more about American politics than Jonathan Martin, I don’t know of him. Neither does anyone else, frankly. “J-Mart” is a writer…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerSome Essentials with Mona
Talking with Mona Charen is one of my great pleasures in life. She is a dear friend and I admire her greatly. For years, we were podcast partners. A few days…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerUkraine at This Hour
As I say in my introduction, Yaroslav Trofimov is one of the best foreign-affairs correspondents in the world. Born in Kyiv, he joined the Wall Street Journal…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerJeb Bush: Policy, Politics, Life
Over the years, I have done several podcasts with Jeb Bush. They are always interesting and refreshing. For two terms, 1999 to 2007, he was the governor of…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerMore Statesmen, Please
Maybe I could quote from my introduction: … our guest today is one of my favorites: Steven B. Smith, the scholar of political philosophy. He is a Chicagoan—not…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerFlicka: ‘Keep on Trekking’
The only thing wrong, the only thing regrettable, about this podcast is that it’s out of proportion. What I mean is, Flicka, the legend, the giant, is in a…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAustrian Pittsburgher
Listeners to Q&A are familiar with Manfred Honeck, and with Rainer Honeck, too. The latter is a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. I interviewed him…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Tenor, Straight-talking and Superb
Eric Cutler is one of the best tenors in all the world, and he is my latest guest on Q&A. He is singing this summer at the Salzburg Festival, where I am also…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerSasha Unbound
Alexander Malofeev is a Russian pianist, born in 2001. He left Russia in 2022 and lives in Berlin. Last night, he played a recital at the Salzburg Festival…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAnd the ‘D’ Is for ‘Damn Right’
The “D” stands for “Daniel,” actually. But when I introduce him on this latest podcast of ours (we have done many), I’m inspired to say, “… my guest today is…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerDefender of Election Integrity—for Real
Gabriel Sterling was one of those human guardrails. There are guardrails written down—in the Constitution, in our laws. But what do they matter, if there are…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerWhiz Kid Spooks Putin
Alexander Browder is an extraordinary young man. A 17-year-old Brit, he has just been sanctioned by the Russian government. His “crime”? Alexander has…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerLove, Language, Literature
As regular readers know, one of my favorite writers, and favorite people, is Mark Helprin. His new novel is Elegy in Blue. (Marvelous title, and utterly suited…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAnthropologist and Writer
One of my favorite writers—one of my favorite commenters on social affairs—is Conrad Kottak. He writes at The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerYour Land, My Land, Our Land
Beverly Gage is a professor at Yale and has a new book, timed for our 250th anniversary: This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History. In a Q&A, we…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerGolden Boy from Tennessee
To quote my introduction, Lamar Alexander is one of these golden children: Eagle Scout; president of his high-school class; governor of Boys State; editor of…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerProfessor Mansfield Is In
It is always a treat to talk with Harvey Mansfield—Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., the scholar of political philosophy. He has been on the faculty of Harvard…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerLaw, Liberty, and Cass (Sunstein)
Introducing this Q&A, I say, … our guest today is Cass Sunstein, the law professor, the legal thinker, the writer. For many years, he taught at the University…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThe Rule of Law, a.k.a. the Ballgame
Our latest guest on Q&A is a “legal eagle,” as I say in my introduction. He is Gregg Nunziata, the executive director of SRL—the Society for the Rule of Law…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerPolitical Worlds, Old and New
Charlie Sykes is a veteran journalist, of a conservative bent. He is a writer and broadcaster. Find Charlie at To the Contrary, his Substack. On Q&A, he and I…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerFreedom on Her Face
Yaqiu Wang has devoted her life to the cause of human rights in China. It is a great and important cause. She has worked for Freedom House, Human Rights Watch…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Man of Letters
Don Williams—Donald Mace Williams—is a writer. A poet, a novelist, a journalist, a translator, and so on. A real man of letters. He has been steeped in poetry…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerMalinowski in the World
As I say in my introduction, Tom Malinowski has had a long and varied career: in the State Department, the White House, Congress, and elsewhere. I hugely…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerNational, and International, Struggles
Dalibor Roháč began life in Slovakia, or Czechoslovakia. He is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. His Ph.D. is in…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerWriter of Lives
One of the writers I read most regularly is Clay Risen. He writes obituaries for the New York Times. Another way to say that is, he is a composer of…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Razor-Sharp Conservative, Up North
Some years ago, I was looking into Stephen Harper, who was then the prime minister of Canada. David Frum said to me something like this: “You’ll want to talk…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerG-Man, Good Man
I’ll quote from my introduction: … our guest today is Michael Feinberg, a former FBI agent who is now a writer and editor with Lawfare. With the FBI, he won a…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAn Unnerving World, Surveyed
Last Friday, there was a day-long event at Princeton: the Aaron Friedberg Retirement Colloquium. Participants included a range of the professor’s colleagues…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThinking about Iran
This is an important moment in Iran: people are out in the streets, demanding change; the dictatorship is murdering them by the thousands. I definitely wanted…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAn American and Her Novel
I have known Linda Chavez for many years, and have read her for even longer. Do you know I had a hard time introducing her? I really did. This is what I wound…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerBy the Ambassador, Briefed
When it comes to questions of U.S. foreign policy—when it comes to questions of world affairs in general—there are certain people I always want to hear from…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerFanDuel Nation
Gambling on sports is as old as sports, no doubt. Cavemen must have gambled, somehow, when it came to tossing sticks or what have you. Jumping to the 20th…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerAntisemitism Left and Right (and All Mixed Up)
In my introduction to this Q&A, I say, ... our guest today is David Frum, the writer. What does he write? Books and articles, about history, politics, culture…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerLive from the Royal Gallery
For many years, a favorite guest of Q&A has been Daniel Hannan, the British writer and politician—since 2021 a member of the House of Lords. In this new Q&A…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Heartening Throwback
In my introduction to this Q&A, I say, ... our guest today is a college student—a senior at Stanford—and a journalist already, believe it or not. We have known…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Conservative from Cleveland in Boston
Jeff Jacoby is now part of the furniture—part of the furniture of American journalism, certainly of opinion journalism. Since 1994, he has written a column for…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThe Right, the Left, and the Fate of the Nation
This new Q&A has two guests. With me gabbing too, it is a three-way convo. My guests are Bill Kristol and David French, those sharp and experienced political…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerMadam President, or, Frau Präsidentin
Kristina Hammer is the president of the Salzburg Festival—which in Salzburg, and Austria, and Europe, and the music world, is a very big deal. She grew up in…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Thinking Tenor
Julian Prégardien is a tenor from Germany—despite his French-looking name. On his father’s side, he is Belgian, Italian, and Dutch. “A true European,” he says…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerCountertenor
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is an American countertenor—a singer from Brooklyn, N.Y. How do you pronounce that first name? As he explained to me, think of three…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerConcertmaster
Rainer Honeck occupies an interesting, and important, perch: he is a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. I have sat down with him at the Salzburg…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerFleur’s World
Fleur Barron is a very interesting singer, and an exceptionally versatile one. This summer, she is making her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where I sat down…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Grasp on Brazil
Gilberto Morbach is one of the most impressive young intellectuals I know. He is a scholar of legal philosophy and related fields. He is interested in, and…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerDottie Pepper: Golf Champion and Analyst
Seventeen times, Dottie Pepper won on the LPGA Tour. That includes two majors. In the years since, she has been a voice of golf: in particular, an on-course…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerSyria Now
Waad al-Kateab is a Syrian journalist, filmmaker, and activist, in exile. Jay did a “Q&A” with her in 2021. And then wrote a piece about her, “Witness from…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerNational Reviewers, Talking Things Over
Jay has frequent opportunity to talk with Ramesh Ponnuru and Richard Brookhiser, two of his colleagues at National Review. He figured: why not have a talk with…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerQuestions of Canada, with David Frum
David Frum was born and raised in Toronto, the son of prominent Canadians. He has since become a prominent U.S. writer, and a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Reaganite from Serbia
Ivana Stradner is an analyst of international relations. She is affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies, the Foundation for Defense of…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerJimmy Lai, Heroic Troublemaker
Mark L. Clifford has written a biography: “The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Uyghur Mother Touches Down in America
Nury A. Turkel is a Uyghur-American lawyer and human-rights activist. Jay did a “Q&A” with him in 2018—when the world was first learning about the mass…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThe Cello, COVID, and Courage
Joshua Roman is a cellist, a superb musician. Lately, he has been engaged in something called “the Immunity Project.” About four years ago, Roman contracted…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerSports-Crazy
The baseball season just past—Shohei & Co. The college football season in swing—too much professionalization? The NFL season (why are the Jets perpetually…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerBaseball Man, Opera Man—Same Man
Ron Blum is a correspondent for the Associated Press. He writes and reports on baseball. And opera. He is encyclopedic in each field. A pleasure to converse…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerBHL on Israel, Ukraine, and the World Crisis
Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher, writer, and activist, has been going to Israel his whole life, virtually. He went on October 8, 2023, the day after…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerSharansky, Israel, Ukraine, and the World
Natan Sharansky began life as Anatoly Shcharansky. He was a dissident and refusenik in the Soviet Union. For nine years, he was a prisoner in the Gulag. He…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerPolitics, Baseball, and George F. Will
We are in a general-election season and a baseball post-season. Prime time for George F. Will. He and Jay have a wide-ranging conversation. Whom would Will…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerJ-Mart the Political Reporter
As Jay says in his introduction, Jonathan Martin, a.k.a. J-Mart, is one of the best political reporters in America. He writes a column for Politico and pops up…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerThe Cornel & Robby Show
Cornel West and Robert P. George are two famous intellectuals, who are famously friends. One is on the left, the other the right. They have a book coming out…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerBuckley Fellows, Jolly Good
In this episode, Jay talks with two young colleagues of his: Kayla Bartsch and Haley Strack, who are William F. Buckley Jr. fellows at National Review. In a…
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Maestro’s Wisdom
Manfred Honeck is one of the leading conductors in the world—and one of Jay’s favorite musical guests. Maestro Honeck is the music director of the Pittsburgh…