Philip Nobile is an American freelance writer, historian, and social critic/commentator based in New York City.

Nobile's original career was not that of a journalist, but of a seminarian; however, he left religious life to become a journalist. During his career he has written for The New York Press, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Spy Magazine, Esquire, and Newsday, among other publications.

He teaches history at the Cobble Hill School Of American Studies, in addition to being a regular contributor to the History News Network.

He has also been the author or editor of eleven books, notably, Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and the New York Review of Books; and Judgement at the Smithsonian, an indictment of the decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, framed within the context of the controversy and debate surrounding The Smithsonian's 50th anniversary exhibition, which featured the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb.

Throughout a controversial career as an investigative journalist and media analyst, Nobile has aimed scathing criticisms at a variety of public figures, including talk radio host Don Imus, author Alex Haley, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, and President Harry S. Truman.

Nobile has also published a sexually explicit book focusing on female orgasms, and has written articles for the pornographic magazine Penthouse.