Jay Nordlinger, National Review

Jay Nordlinger

National Review

New York, NY, United States

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Past:
  • National Review

Past articles by Jay:

Cases, Federal or Otherwise

You know what else Jimmy Durante is responsible for? It’s kind of related to the question of government and its duties: “Everybody wants to get into the act!” → Read More

Backlash babies, &c.

On what colleges do, unintentionally; Fox News behind the scenes; the end of Kiss; and more. → Read More

Russia-Ukraine War: Ukrainians and Americans, a Year Later

Here are some notes on Ukrainians and Americans, a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. → Read More

One Man’s ‘Vocation’

On a podcast with Félix Maradiaga, Nicaraguan democracy leader and former political prisoner. → Read More

‘Someone Should Tell the Time to Wait’

A statement from an Afghan girl turning 17. → Read More

The Meaning of Wednesday Night

How country-and-western music grew on a man. → Read More

The Heroic, Benevolent Pete Reed

A U.S. Marine became a volunteer medic. He has been killed by Russian forces in Ukraine. → Read More

Bombers, Boxers, Etc.

Reader mail on the Berlin Airlift, Ukraine, sports, and more. → Read More

Roofs and Leaks

Reader mail on homelessness, drug addiction, the federal deficit and debt, and an old song. → Read More

‘The Urgency of the Moment’

On Ukrainian perseverance, American support, etc. → Read More

‘Pennies from Heaven’

There’s an old saying: “No one will fix the roof while the sun is shining.” No, people wait until a storm comes, then they scramble up onto the roof, for a desperate repair. I believe that something like this will happen with Social Security and Medicare. → Read More

On Paul Johnson, Sol Stern, and the Nokia Tune

On Paul Johnson, Sol Stern, a tune heard ’round the world, etc. → Read More

The Information War, Cont.

RFE/RL opens a new bureau in Latvia, in an effort to get information to closed Russia. → Read More

'Goodness and Gentleness'; Songs of Hank Williams; and More

Reader mail on Hank Williams, the example of a woman, and more. → Read More

Religion and Politics: A Bloody Crossroads

On a podcast with Russell D. Moore, Christian minister and magazine editor. → Read More

‘For Your Freedom and Ours!’

Viktor Fainberg and other Soviet citizens protested the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968; they have heirs today. → Read More

‘Politics Is Like Baseball’

Reader mail on Mitch McConnell, ‘Big Pharma,’ the metric system, etc. → Read More

Nonsense from China, &c.

On Xi Jinping, Benedict XVI, William F. Buckley Jr., George Santos, Pelé, Tennyson, and more. → Read More

Jawing about Ideas — Fundamental Ones

On a podcast with Stephanie Slade, a libertarian (with twists). → Read More

Vladimir Rumyantsev, a Russian to Know

RFE/RL reports on the case of Vladimir Rumyantsev, who was sentenced to three years in a penal colony for sharing information about the war in Ukraine via ham radio. → Read More