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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...
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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...

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...

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...

Charlie Sykes is a veteran journalist, of a conservative bent. He is a writer and broadcaster. Find Charlie at To the Contrary , his Substac...

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,...

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...

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...

Dalibor Roháč began life in Slovakia, or Czechoslovakia. He is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. His...

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...

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...

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...

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

This is an important moment in Iran: people are out in the streets, demanding change; the dictatorship is murdering them by the thousands. I...

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...

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...

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. Jumpi...

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...

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 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 o...

Jeff Jacoby is now part of the furniture—part of the furniture of American journalism, certainly of opinion journalism. Since 1994, he has w...

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 expe...

Kristina Hammer is the president of the Salzburg Festival —which in Salzburg, and Austria, and Europe, and the music world, is a very big de...

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...

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, t...

Rainer Honeck occupies an interesting, and important, perch: he is a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. I have sat down with him at t...

Fleur Barron is a very interesting singer, and an exceptionally versatile one. This summer, she is making her debut at the Salzburg Festival...

Gilberto Morbach is one of the most impressive young intellectuals I know. He is a scholar of legal philosophy and related fields. He is int...

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 particul...

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...

Jay has frequent opportunity to talk with Ramesh Ponnuru and Richard Brookhiser , two of his colleagues at National Review. He figured: why...

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....

Ivana Stradner is an analyst of international relations. She is affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies, the Foundation...

Mark L. Clifford has written a biography: “ The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’...

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 a...

Joshua Roman is a cellist, a superb musician. Lately, he has been engaged in something called “the Immunity Project.” About four years ago,...

The baseball season just past—Shohei & Co. The college football season in swing—too much professionalization? The NFL season (why are the Je...

Ron Blum is a correspondent for the Associated Press. He writes and reports on baseball. And opera. He is encyclopedic in each field. A plea...

Bernard-Henri Lévy , the French philosopher, writer, and activist, has been going to Israel his whole life, virtually. He went on October 8,...

Natan Sharansky began life as Anatoly Shcharansky. He was a dissident and refusenik in the Soviet Union. For nine years, he was a prisoner i...

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....

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...

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...

In this episode, Jay talks with two young colleagues of his: Kayla Bartsch and Haley Strack , who are William F. Buckley Jr. fellows at Nati...

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...

Kate Lindsey is a mezzo-soprano, from Richmond, Virginia. She is now based in the U.K. She is a versatile singer, singing opera roles and so...

Ausrine Stundyte is an opera star—a soprano from Lithuania. As Jay says in his introduction, “She is a phenomenal singer, and a phenomenal s...

Kathryn Lewek is an American soprano, who, this summer, has been singing at the Salzburg Festival. That’s where Jay caught up with her. They...

Maestro Riccardo Muti is a fixture at the Salzburg Festival. This year, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony....

Ilya Somin is a law prof and all-around intellectual. He is of a libertarian bent. He teaches at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mas...

Rosa María Payá is a democracy activist. So was her father, Oswaldo—killed by the Cuban regime in 2012. With Jay, Rosa María talks about pol...

For The Atlantic, Eliot A. Cohen has written a piece called “Farewell to Academe.” The subtitle is: “I leave with doubts and foreboding that...