Jay Stephen Nordlinger (born November 21, 1963) is an American conservative commentator. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and a book fellow of the National Review Institute.[4] He is also a music critic for The New Criterion and The Conservative.[5][6]
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.[6]
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.[citation needed]
In 2007, National Review Books published Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger, comprising 100 pieces on various subjects.[7] In 2012, Encounter Books published Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World.[8] In 2015, Encounter Books published Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators.[9] 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.[10]
