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Jay Nordlinger (born November 21, 1963) is an American journalist. He is a senior editor of ''
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'', and a book fellow of the National Review Institute. He is also a music critic for ''
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'' and ''
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''. In the 1990s, Nordlinger worked for ''
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'' magazine. In the 2000s, he was music critic for the ''
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''.


Early life

Nordlinger grew up in
Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all ...
, which he refers to as a left-leaning "Citadel of the Left," and opines about in his political columns. His father worked in the education sector and his mother was an artist. He graduated from the
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
and, for a while, attended
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
as a graduate student.


Career

Since 2002, he has hosted a series of public interviews at the
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. 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 bringing hour-long interviews with various personalities. In 2007, National Review Books published ''Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger'', comprising some 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, titled ''Digging In: Further Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger''.


Awards

In 2001, Nordlinger received the
Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, also known as the Eric Breindel Journalism Award, was an annual award commemorating Eric Breindel, a former editorial page editor of the ''New York Post'', which existed from 1999 throu ...
, a now defunct annual award at one time given by Rupert Murdochs
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, in honor of late editorial-page editor of NYPost. It was meant to go to a journalist who according to NYpost editors now defunct foundation demonstrates "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of
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." Also in 2001, Nordlinger has claimed to have won an “annual award of the Chan Foundation for Journalism and Culture”. The award and the foundation, he claims, were established in honor of Zhu Xi Chan, the
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newspaper owner whose pages covered events in Chairman
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...
's China. The award is intended for a journalist "who uses his talents to work for freedom and democracy in China." Their is not reliable information available online about the “award” or “foundation” beyond Nordlingers own Bio and personal claims


Personal life

Nordlinger is a fan of the
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, and lives in
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.


References


External links

*
Nordlinger's profile
at National Review Online
Archive of Nordlinger's writings
at the ''New York Sun''.
Archive of Nordlinger's writings
at ''The New Criterion''. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nordlinger, Jay Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan 1963 births Living people American columnists American male journalists Journalists from Michigan American magazine editors American music critics American music journalists American political writers Michigan Republicans New York (state) Republicans New York (state) Independents The New York Sun people University of Michigan alumni National Review people American speechwriters