Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger

Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger

Episodes 531
Avg. Duration 44m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (236)
Since Mar 2015
Latest Episode May 2026

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

Golden Boy from Tennessee

May 28, 2026 38m

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 the college newspaper; Phi Beta Kappa;…

Professor Mansfield Is In

May 26, 2026 33m

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 University (his alma mater) since 1962. Today,…

Law, Liberty, and Cass (Sunstein)

Apr 21, 2026 43m

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 of Chicago, and for many years since,…

The Rule of Law, a.k.a. the Ballgame

Apr 14, 2026 48m

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. The organization serves an important…

Political Worlds, Old and New

Apr 09, 2026 46m

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 have had a meaty, wide-ranging…

Freedom on Her Face

Mar 30, 2026 44m

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, and the Committee to Protect…

A Man of Letters

Mar 15, 2026 36m

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 all of his life. When he and his family…

Malinowski in the World

Mar 12, 2026 59m

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 enjoyed my hour of talking with this fellow.…

National, and International, Struggles

Feb 21, 2026 47m

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 political economy. He says that his role is to…

Writer of Lives

Feb 16, 2026 1h 8m

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 mini-biographies, week after week.He has also…

A Razor-Sharp Conservative, Up North

Feb 08, 2026 56m

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 to Jason Kenney. He’s a conservative…

G-Man, Good Man

Feb 04, 2026 37m

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 slew of awards and commendations, but was…

An Unnerving World, Surveyed

Jan 20, 2026 54m

Last Friday, there was a day-long event at Princeton: the Aaron Friedberg Retirement Colloquium. Participants included a range of the professor’s colleagues and students (present and past). Friedberg…

Thinking about Iran

Jan 17, 2026 28m

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 to talk with Marina Nemat, a woman I…

An American and Her Novel

Jan 09, 2026 28m

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 up saying:... our guest is Linda…

By the Ambassador, Briefed

Dec 18, 2025 1h 8m

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. One of them is Nick Burns—R. Nicholas…

FanDuel Nation

Dec 13, 2025 50m

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 century, we in America had the Black Sox…

Antisemitism Left and Right (and All Mixed Up)

Nov 07, 2025 1h 9m

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, and so on. He is almost the…

Live from the Royal Gallery

Nov 06, 2025 56m

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, Dan is sitting in the Royal…

A Heartening Throwback

Nov 03, 2025 48m

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 each other for some time. He is John…

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