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Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review and the music critic of The New Criterion. 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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Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review and the music critic of The New Criterion. 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.

    A Tour with Declan Walsh, Foreign Correspondent

    A Tour with Declan Walsh, Foreign Correspondent

    Declan Walsh is a veteran foreign correspondent, whom Jay has read and cited for years. Walsh has reported from many spots, most of them troubled – very. He has recently been Cairo bureau chief for the New York Times. Now he is in Africa for that paper. He has just written a book about Pakistan […]

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Manliness, Machiavelli, and More, with Harvey Mansfield

    Manliness, Machiavelli, and More, with Harvey Mansfield

    Harvey Mansfield, the professor of government and political philosopher at Harvard, is one of the great teachers in America. He does some splendid teaching in this hour with Jay. He talks about manliness – what it is and what it isn’t. (Mansfield published a book on the subject in 2006.) He talks about “conservative” and […]

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Sorting It Out, with Robert Costa

    Sorting It Out, with Robert Costa

    In these post-election days, Jay wanted to talk to his old friend and colleague Robert Costa: national political reporter of the Washington Post; analyst for NBC News and MSNBC; host of PBS’s “Washington Week.” They do indeed talk it over: R’s, D’s, media, inaugurations, and more. Costa is a man who knows – because he […]

    • 58 min
    Sports in a Year of Pandemic

    Sports in a Year of Pandemic

    A wide-ranging conversation with Sally Jenkins, columnist of the Washington Post, and David French, senior editor of The Dispatch. An NBA season. A Major League Baseball season. College football, sort of. A Masters tournament in November. Should there be a college sports major? And more. Two seasoned and eloquent gurus, questioned by Jay.

    • 1 hr 3 min
    Lincoln, Mookie, and the Piggly Wiggly: A Conversation with George F. Will

    Lincoln, Mookie, and the Piggly Wiggly: A Conversation with George F. Will

    In the middle of the World Series, you want to talk baseball with George F. Will. You want to talk baseball with him anytime, actually, and a number of other subjects, too. In this “Q&A,” Will speaks of the “angelic, superb Mookie Betts,” of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also talks about the presidential campaign, […]

    • 50 min
    1619 and All That: A Conversation with Bret Stephens

    1619 and All That: A Conversation with Bret Stephens

    Earlier this month, Bret Stephens wrote a searching essay on the New York Times’s 1619 Project. Stephens is a columnist for the New York Times himself. The 1619 Project places slavery at the center of the American founding (and thus of America). With Jay, Stephens talks about this, and much else: the presidential campaign, the […]

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
165 Ratings

165 Ratings

tfitzjjfitz ,

Jay N, Peter R, James L, J Miller, B Dominech, etc:

Best interviewers ever. Pace those who I missed like D Miller, T Senik, etc. and powerline.

These are the best.

RenewedAgora ,

False consciousness

Not too impressed

Charconsdad ,

Great interviewer!

Jay interviews on his podcast as he does in his writing on National Review. His questions are clear and concise; the focus is on the person being interviewed. Whether on podcast or in print, I always come away enlightened about the person whom Jay is highlighting. The gentle intelligence with which he speaks/writes paves the way for an enjoyable, entertaining, and enlightening experience!

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