Jeff Jacoby
Op-Ed Columnist, The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby is an award-winning columnist for The Boston Globe. Seeking a conservative voice to balance a liberal roster of commentators, The Globe hired him away from The Boston Herald in 1994, where he had been the Chief Editorial Writer. Soon after his Globe debut, even the progressive Boston Phoenix dubbed his twice-weekly essays “a must-read.” Today, his columns are distributed by The New York Times Syndicate, and readers can also follow him on social media and at his own website, JeffJacoby.com.
In addition to his newspaper column, Jacoby also writes Arguable, a weekly email newsletter. Launched in 2017, Arguable now reaches more than 100,000 subscribers.
A native of Cleveland, Jacoby is the son of a Holocaust Survivor and the product of a Jewish day school education. He graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1979 and from Boston University Law School in 1983. He briefly practiced law at the national firm of Baker & Hostetler, and in the mid-1980s was an assistant to John Silber, the storied president of Boston University.
In 1999, Jacoby became the first recipient of the Breindel Prize, a major award for excellence in opinion journalism. In 2004, he received the Thomas Paine Award from the Institute for Justice, which honors journalists “who dedicate their work to the preservation and championing of individual liberty.” In 2009, he was presented with the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism on the Middle East. In 2014, he was included in the “Forward 50,” a list of the 50 most influential American Jews.
