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Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger

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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 issue...

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Whiz 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”? Ale...

25:36Jul 14, 2026

Love, 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...

51:36Jun 29, 2026

Anthropologist and Writer

One of my favorite writers—one of my favorite commenters on social affairs—is Conrad Kottak. He writes at The Anthropocene Anthropologist: R...

42:44Jun 25, 2026

Your 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. Hi...

46:12Jun 10, 2026

Golden 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...

38:40May 28, 2026

Professor 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...

33:50May 26, 2026

Law, 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 taugh...

43:06Apr 21, 2026

The 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...

48:16Apr 14, 2026

Political 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 Substac...

46:45Apr 9, 2026

Freedom 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,...

44:31Mar 30, 2026

A 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...

36:58Mar 15, 2026

Malinowski 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 elsewh...

59:50Mar 12, 2026

National, 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...

47:22Feb 21, 2026

Writer 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 co...

68:14Feb 16, 2026

A 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: “Yo...

56:28Feb 8, 2026

G-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 . Wit...

37:43Feb 4, 2026

An Unnerving World, Surveyed

Last Friday, there was a day-long event at Princeton: the Aaron Friedberg Retirement Colloquium . Participants included a range of the profe...

54:56Jan 20, 2026

Thinking 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...

28:54Jan 17, 2026

An 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. Th...

28:30Jan 9, 2026

By 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 w...

68:27Dec 18, 2025