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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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Business World

How to Avoid a 5G Boondoggle

April 30, 2019 10:37 pm ET

Let businesses experiment and let Washington keep a respectful distance.

Business World

Meet America’s Siloviki

April 23, 2019 10:33 pm ET

Our politics will be healed only when voters know what our secret agents know.

Business World

Can the Media Survive Mueller?

April 16, 2019 11:07 pm ET

What’s the future of news outlets that decided it wasn’t news if Steele was lying?

Business World

An Aircraft Bubble Epilogue

April 5, 2019 10:29 pm ET

How cheap money and strategic gamesmanship helped give birth to Boeing’s 737 MAX.

Business World

What Mueller Won’t Say

March 26, 2019 10:59 pm ET

Did he investigate the Steele dossier? If not, he didn’t really investigate.

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