Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is an American conservative commentator. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and a book fellow of the National Review Institute. He is also a music critic for The New Criterion and The Conservative.
In the 1990s, Nordlinger worked for The Weekly Standard magazine. In the 2000s, he was music critic for the The [New York Sun|New York Sun].
Early life
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.Career
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.In 2007, National Review Books published Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger, comprising 100 pieces on various subjects. In 2012, Encounter Books published Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World. In 2015, Encounter Books published Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. 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.