Jeb Bush: Policy, Politics, Life
Over the years, I have done several podcasts with Jeb Bush. They are always interesting and refreshing. For two terms, 1999 to 2007, he was...
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Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
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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More Statesmen, Please
Maybe I could quote from my introduction: … our guest today is one of my favorites: Steven B. Smith, the scholar of political philosophy. He...
Flicka: ‘Keep on Trekking’
The only thing wrong, the only thing regrettable, about this podcast is that it’s out of proportion. What I mean is, Flicka, the legend, the...
Austrian Pittsburgher
Listeners to Q&A are familiar with Manfred Honeck, and with Rainer Honeck, too. The latter is a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. I...
A Tenor, Straight-talking and Superb
Eric Cutler is one of the best tenors in all the world, and he is my latest guest on Q&A . He is singing this summer at the Salzburg Festiva...
Sasha Unbound
Alexander Malofeev is a Russian pianist, born in 2001. He left Russia in 2022 and lives in Berlin. Last night, he played a recital at the Sa...
And the ‘D’ Is for ‘Damn Right’
The “D” stands for “Daniel,” actually. But when I introduce him on this latest podcast of ours (we have done many), I’m inspired to say, “…...
Defender of Election Integrity—for Real
Gabriel Sterling was one of those human guardrails. There are guardrails written down—in the Constitution, in our laws. But what do they mat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...