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born 1963 United States
Jay Nordlinger (born 1963) is an American journalist. He is a senior editor of National Review, and a book fellow of the National Review Institute.
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Nemtsov sacrificed a lot for politics, for a freer Russia — and I’m not just talking about his life, his mortal life.
There's a point at which left and right join.
People are always criticizing Twitter. "Twitter is crazy!" they say. I think that's misguided. Twitter is simply an avenue -- there are many -- by which people reveal who they are.
I grew up with the phrase "Believe the woman." It was almost a slogan. You didn't hear it much during the Clinton years.
"Globalism" is often the most self-interested and "nationalist" thing you can do. It has been a bonanza to the United States, for sure. In capitalism, your narrowest interests are advanced by cooperation. A genius system.
Individuals are responsible for their actions. And yet . . . No man is an island. We are all subject to influences, good and bad.
Class size is another shibboleth: First, small class sizes do not increase learning, and, second, class sizes have become quite small anyway.
But understand them, people say. And one does. But sometimes understanding is not comforting or flattering to the understood.
Change and Determination: After 9/11, a shaking up (2002)
In capitalism, your narrowest interests are advanced by cooperation. A genius system.
[T]he nutcase Left and the nutcase Right are alike in virtually every particular. They should get a room somewhere -- far from here.
One more word on talking, before I stop talking, at least about this subject: You or I may not like the talker, but talk matters, much of the time. It is especially significant when the talker is lonely — when most around him are keeping mum.
Some Talk about Talk (2018)
More and more, I tune out when I see the word "elites," regarding it as a lazy Marxist slur, from both Left and Right. I still use it, when I believe it is absolutely the right word. But more and more, it makes me say, "Bye."
More and more, I like Utah.
People come to New York to live in small apartments, after living in large homes elsewhere. They think they will never get used to it. How will they live without their stuff (now in storage, or disposed of)? Very soon, they realize they have more than enough stuff in the apartment.