Opinion Archive: Jeff Jacoby
- The Peace Process Battered Israel's Reputation — Thursday, May 24, 2012
- Two Is Enough — Monday, May 21, 2012
- Health Care: No, the State Doesn't Know Best — Thursday, May 17, 2012
- Benefit of Doubt on 'Evolution' — Monday, May 14, 2012
- When General Grant Expelled the Jews — Friday, May 11, 2012
- The Ghastly Hellhole of Camp 14 — Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- 'The Defining Issue of Our Time'? Hardly — Monday, May 7, 2012
- What Brown's and Warren's Tax Returns Really Show — Thursday, May 3, 2012
- The Government's College Money Pit — Monday, April 30, 2012
- Jim McGovern's War on the Constitution — Thursday, April 26, 2012
- Obama Is a Unifier? Hardly — Monday, April 23, 2012
- 'Victims' Who Persecute — Wednesday, April 18, 2012
- Freedom of Association, Even for Augusta National — Wednesday, April 11, 2012
- An Uncivil Income Tax System — Thursday, April 5, 2012
- With Sunny Authenticity, Reagan Wooed the Young — Thursday, March 29, 2012
- Romney, Republicans, and the Young — Monday, March 26, 2012
- A Safer Society With Guns — Wednesday, March 21, 2012
- On the Health-Insurance Mandate, Romney Plays Both Sides — Monday, March 19, 2012
- On Trial at Rutgers: Hate Crime or Thought Crime? — Thursday, March 15, 2012
- Taxi Medallions Shackle Cabbies — Monday, March 12, 2012
- Apologize Like You Mean It, Rush — Wednesday, March 7, 2012
- Yes, Colleges Are Full of Liberal Elites — Monday, March 5, 2012
- Outraged by Mormon Proxy Baptism? Not This Jew — Wednesday, February 29, 2012
- Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception — Wednesday, February 15, 2012
- A Second Look at 'The Third Jihad' — Monday, February 13, 2012
- Ganging Up on Ginsburg -- Way Too Quickly — Wednesday, February 8, 2012
- What's So Good About a Long GOP Primary Fight? — Monday, February 6, 2012
- Why Should the State License Drivers? — Monday, January 30, 2012
- Shut Up, They Explained — Thursday, January 26, 2012
- Tom Menino, Cable Guy? — Monday, January 23, 2012
- Burning with Despair — Thursday, January 19, 2012
- In New Hampshire, 'Acceptable' Is Pronounced 'Winner' — Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- A 'Referendum' on Romney — Monday, January 9, 2012
- Pull the Parachute — Thursday, January 5, 2012
- The Supreme Court's Judgment Isn't Absolute — Sunday, January 1, 2012
About Jeff Jacoby
Jeff Jacoby has been an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe since February 1994. Seeking a conservative voice, the Globe hired him away from the Boston Herald, where he had been chief editorial writer since 1987. The Boston Phoenix has dubbed his twice-weekly essays ''a must-read,'' describing him as ''the region's pre-eminent spokesman for Conservative Nation.''
A native of Cleveland, Jeff Jacoby graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1979, and from Boston University Law School in 1983. He briefly practiced law at the nationally renowned firm of Baker & Hostetler, returning to Boston in 1984 to work on a political campaign. In 1985-87, he was an assistant to Dr. John Silber, the president of Boston University.
For several years, Jacoby was a political commentator for WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio affiliate. He also hosted ''Talk of New England,'' a weekly television program. He is a frequent guest on radio talk shows across North America. He serves on the board of the New England chapter of the American Jewish Committee, and is a director of the Ford Hall Forum, the nation's oldest free public-lecture series.
In 1999, Jacoby became the first recipient of the Breindel Prize, a $10,000 prize for excellence in opinion journalism. In 2004, he received the Thomas Paine Award of the Institute for Justice, an award presented to journalists ''who dedicate their work to the preservation and championing of individual liberty.''
Jeff Jacoby is married to the former Laura Weller. They live in Brookline, Massachusetts, with their sons, Caleb and Micah.
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