Jay Nordlinger | |
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| Nordlinger in 2015 | |
| Born | November 21, 1963 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA) |
| Political party | Republican (before 2016) Independent (2016–present) [1] |
| Awards | Eric Breindel Award |
Jay Nordlinger (born November 21, 1963) is an American journalist. He is a former senior editor of National Review , and a book fellow of the National Review Institute. [2] He is also a music critic for The New Criterion and The Conservative. [3] [4]
In the 1990s, Nordlinger worked for The Weekly Standard magazine. In the 2000s, he was music critic for the New York Sun .
Nordlinger grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which he has called a "Citadel of the Left". His father worked in the education sector and his mother was an artist. He graduated from the University of Michigan. [4]
Since 2002, he has hosted a series of public interviews at the Salzburg Festival. With Mona Charen, he hosted the Need to Know podcast, and he also hosts a podcast called "Q&A." In 2011, he filmed The Human Parade,with Jay Nordlinger, a TV series of hour-long interviews with personalities.[ citation needed ]
In 2007, National Review Books published Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger, comprising 100 pieces on various subjects. [5] In 2012, Encounter Books published Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World. [6] In 2015, Encounter Books published Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. [7] In 2016, National Review Books published a second anthology of Nordlinger's essays and articles, Digging In: Further Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger. He left National Review in May 2025. [8]
In 2001, Nordlinger received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, [9] a now defunct annual award given by News Corporation, in honor of the late editorial-page editor of the New York Post. It was to be awarded to a journalist whose writing demonstrated "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
Nordlinger is a fan of the Detroit Pistons, and lives in New York City. [10]