Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger is an American journalist. He is a senior editor of National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955, and a book fellow of the National Review Institute. He also writes a column, "Impromptus," for the magazine's website. He is also the music critic for The New Criterion.

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He covers a wide variety of topics, including politics and foreign policy, and has written a great deal about human rights.

Since 2002, he has hosted a series of public interviews at the Salzburg Festival. With Mona Charen, he hosts 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 bringing hour-long interviews with various personalities.

Nordlinger is music critic for The Conservative. In the 1990s, Nordlinger worked for The Weekly Standard magazine. In the 2000s, he was music critic for the New York Sun.

In the last month and a half of the campaign for the 2000 presidential election, Nordlinger took a leave of absence from National Review to assist the speechwriting team of George W. Bush.

Nordlinger lives in New York City but grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He often refers to his left-leaning hometown in political columns.