Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
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Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is a journalist who writes about a range of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and the arts. He is the music critic of The New Criterion. He is a senior resident fellow at the Renew Democracy Initiative, and a contributor to its publication, The Next Move. His guests are f...
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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 giant, is...
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 interviewe...
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 Festival, where I...
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 Salzburg Fes...
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, “… my guest t...
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 matter, if th...
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”? Alexander has...
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, and utter...
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: Reflections...
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. History. In...
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 Sta...
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 of Harvard...
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 taught at...
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 the...
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 Substack. On Q&A,...
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, Human Righ...
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 steeped i...
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 elsewhere. I hug...
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 Ph.D. is i...
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 composer of m...
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: “You’ll want...
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. With the...
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 professor’s coll...
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 definitel...
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. This is what...
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 want to hea...
FanDuel Nation
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. Jumping to the...
Antisemitism Left and Right (and All Mixed Up)
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, pol...
Live from the Royal Gallery
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 this n...
A Heartening Throwback
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 or not...
A Conservative from Cleveland in Boston
Jeff Jacoby is now part of the furniture—part of the furniture of American journalism, certainly of opinion journalism. Since 1994, he has written a c...
The Right, the Left, and the Fate of the Nation
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 experienced po...
Madam President, or, Frau Präsidentin
Kristina Hammer is the president of the Salzburg Festival—which in Salzburg, and Austria, and Europe, and the music world, is a very big deal. She gre...
A Thinking Tenor
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 European,”...
Countertenor
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, think of th...
Concertmaster
Rainer Honeck occupies an interesting, and important, perch: he is a concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. I have sat down with him at the Salzbur...
Fleur’s World
Fleur Barron is a very interesting singer, and an exceptionally versatile one. This summer, she is making her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where I...
A Grasp on Brazil
Gilberto Morbach is one of the most impressive young intellectuals I know. He is a scholar of legal philosophy and related fields. He is interested in...
Dottie Pepper: Golf Champion and Analyst
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 particular, an on-...
Syria Now
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, “Witness...