Peggy Noonan
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Whose Idea of America? March 21, 2025
When Jackie Kennedy died, Peggy Noonan distilled America’s love for its First Lady into a little over a dozen paragraphs, nearly all of them perfect. “A nation watched, and would never forget” how Jackie carried herself the weekend of her husband’s m...
The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan February 21, 2025
Peggy Noonan’s 2024 book, A Certain Sense of America, a compilation of about 80 of her Wall Street Journal columns from the past 8 years was, is a revelation for those struggling to make sense of American identity and history at a time of intense pol...
High Noonan November 22, 2024
To say Peggy Noonan is one of our finest political columnists is not wholly fair to her, since she writes so often about topics and people that are not political, or at least not overtly so. She is deeply fair and empathetic, and she writes in such a...
On Loving America November 11, 2024
The famous first sentence of Charles de Gaulle’s War Memoirs most happily translates as: “All my life I have had a certain idea of France.” It struck me when I first read it many years ago and stayed with me because all my life I have had a certain i...
