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Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of <a href="http://nationalreview.com"><em>National Review</em></a> and the music critic of <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com"><em>The New Criterion</em></a>. His guests are from the worlds of politics and culture, talking...
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Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of <a href="http://nationalreview.com"><em>National Review</em></a> and the music critic of <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com"><em>The New Criterion</em></a>. His guests are from the worlds of politics and culture, talking about the most important issues of the day, and some pleasant trivialities as well.
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Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
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A Legal Eagle, on Law and Life
18 JUL 2024 · https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/somin_ilya is a law prof and all-around intellectual. He is of a libertarian bent. He teaches at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He began life in the Soviet Union. He was but six when his family immigrated to America. He read Robert Nozick, and Tolkien, and others. He went to Amherst, Harvard, and Yale. He is a Boston sports fan. With Jay, he talks about life, the law, and the American experiment. A formidable mind, a formidable teacher.
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Daughter of Cuba
11 JUL 2024 · https://oslofreedomforum.com/speaker/rosa-maria-paya/ is a democracy activist. So was her father, Oswaldo—killed by the Cuban regime in 2012. With Jay, Rosa María talks about political prisoners, the Castros, the alliance between Havana and Moscow, the alliance between Havana and Beijing, the nature of democracy, and more. She is a brave, poised woman, with a touch of nobility about her, or more than a touch. Her father would beam.
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A Life in Academe, a Life in the World: Eliot A. Cohen
10 JUL 2024 · For The Atlantic, Eliot A. Cohen has written a https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/farewell-academe-harvard-university/678875/ called “Farewell to Academe.” The subtitle is: “I leave with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982.” With Jay, he talks about this. They also talk about Israel and Ukraine. About U.S. politics. About the life of the mind, including poetry (Dylan Thomas, Edwin Arlington Robinson). A wide-ranging, personal, and informative conversation.
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From Russia, a Brave, Conscientious Woman
26 JUN 2024 · https://genevasummit.org/speaker/anastasia-shevchenko/ was a civil-society leader in Russia. She was the first person prosecuted under the Kremlin’s notorious law concerning “undesirable organizations.” She fled Russia in the summer of 2022 and continues to work for human rights in her native country from abroad. Earlier this month, she was a guest, by video hook-up, of the https://oslofreedomforum.com/. In this “Q&A,” Jay talks with Mrs. Shevchenko about the Soviet Union, Putin, Ukraine—many things. An encounter with Anastasia Shevchenko is a pleasure and an inspiration.
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Saturday Night in America
19 JUN 2024 · https://x.com/Schneider_CM?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor is a writer and podcaster. With Scot Bertram, he hosts a https://www.wasntthatspecial.com/about about “Saturday Night Live.” Jay talks with him about “SNL,” about politics, about politics and “SNL,” etc.
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Ukraine, from Independence till Now
14 JUN 2024 · Adrian Karatnycky is a New Yorker with Ukrainian-Polish heritage. For eleven years, he was president of Freedom House. Today he is with the Atlantic Council and other organizations. He was a student of Ukraine—and the general neighborhood—long before most people thought of Ukraine. He has now written a history: “https://www.amazon.com/Battleground-Ukraine-Independence-War-Russia/dp/0300269463/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21GWFPF97RBLQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xNISilzT8p0Y8GsXIRt76a4e9u-TpSuvpbI4LqhNmRnmTc0Tx9e0mtKacjT-c7yBF9EetDudDVJn9mrCDyQQDQC1crc92qz3c8gBGjQfIIxfvpRCF_pOR9gO2Ex1HJLO.E_K3pbwT2bnqe54rZnKBQOqfm5EnmF5GGRVbmU6uYCY&dib_tag=se&keywords=karatnycky+adrian&qid=1718380795&sprefix=karatnycky+adrian%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-1.” With Jay, Karatnycky talks about some of the basics. A deeply knowledgeable man about a crucial set of issues.
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Son of Nicaragua
7 JUN 2024 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Fernando_Chamorro_Barrios is one of the most important journalists in all of Latin America. He is a Nicaraguan—though the dictatorship has stripped him of his citizenship. He now works in exile, in Costa Rica. He is the son of Pedro Joaquín and Violeta Chamorro. His father was the editor of La Prensa, the newspaper that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. He was assassinated in 1978. His mother was elected president of Nicaragua in 1990. Carlos Fernando was involved with the Sandinista movement for some years. Like so many others, he turned into an opponent. They have hounded him out of the country. Yet he is still on their tail. With Jay, he discusses family, Nicaragua, and politics in general.
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From Rwanda, the Hotel Manager
5 JUN 2024 · Across the globe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina is known as “the hotel manager.” In 2004, Don Cheadle portrayed Rusesabagina in the movie “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda.” (Cheadle won an Academy Award for the portrayal.) In 1994, Rusesabagina was the general manager of a hotel in Kigali. In that capacity, he saved 1,268 refugees from murder—from the genocide. In 2005, George W. Bush bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Rusesabagina. But the hotel manager’s troubles were not ended. In 2020, he was kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured by the Rwandan dictatorship for two years and seven months. Jay has sat down with Rusesabagina at the https://oslofreedomforum.com/, asking about his life, and life more generally.
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Painter of Our Revolution
16 MAY 2024 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brookhiser has written many books about the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers. He got interested when he went to college—to Yale, where he saw John Trumbull’s paintings. Now he has written a https://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Lessons-Trumbull-American-Revolution/dp/0300259700/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32M7C3BIV0FT0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.OS1vJsGjmtAjIiGMKxT2Kp8_jspLd3pUgGyTzIowGB98cv6gC4lmHNZ0REU3_rNqE3A8iXOcasLVRiLc3Pi0159vU8lcBMeJNCCelNMVL6Uv97iqiJo-h_KhlDUozTZzLHn6U9OdWQ86lxC10l5uHMMmVVe1q_IXnyySXztleqgNLKICSmVAGg4_wDAPQ7TshlO4hqefJ1_HPx9l7Do-XHJr3Sw9aBcMuzYzB-iVQ6vOHx5jfj1q-o6nnvI2zbapudhwzj2U5gJNq5ZgRwHssqzK5wczK3MA8y0dwTsNzX8.-BJuiu2sSu-Oebs4p-TR_LbP7kbE4Jwt1ri-TxJkdkw&dib_tag=se&keywords=richard+brookhiser&qid=1715875671&sprefix=%2Caps%2C79&sr=8-1 of the artist. A wonderful student and explainer and depicter, Brookhiser is.
A Ukrainian on Ukraine
14 MAY 2024 · https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko is one of the leading war reporters and defense analysts in Ukraine. He himself is Ukrainian—from the east of the country. He went to college in Mariupol, which has now been bludgeoned and taken over by Putin’s forces. Ponomarenko has come out with a book, mid-war: “https://www.amazon.com/Will-Show-You-How-Was/dp/1639733876.” Jay talks with him about issues that gnaw at a great many.
Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of <a href="http://nationalreview.com"><em>National Review</em></a> and the music critic of <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com"><em>The New Criterion</em></a>. His guests are from the worlds of politics and culture, talking...
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Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of <a href="http://nationalreview.com"><em>National Review</em></a> and the music critic of <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com"><em>The New Criterion</em></a>. His guests are from the worlds of politics and culture, talking about the most important issues of the day, and some pleasant trivialities as well.
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