Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

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Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the twice-weekly “Business World” column that appears on the paper's op-ed page on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.

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Lockdowns vs. the Vulnerable

May 29, 2020 10:32 pm ET

A strategy that ignores trade-offs and the dimension of time badly served coronavirus victims.

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Elon Musk Is Our New ACLU

May 12, 2020 10:22 pm ET

The most sweeping restrictions on liberty ever seen deserve to be legally scrutinized.

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Government Punts to Business

May 1, 2020 10:41 pm ET

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