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Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan writes, in the Wall Street Journal, one of the most respected and widely read political columns in the country. She has written six bestselling books about politics history and culture including, What I Saw At The Revolution ...

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Peggy Noonan | 03/18/2008 5:58 pm

What Anthony Minghella Gave to the World

It’s always a shock when the young and vital die, and in this case he was an artist at the top of his powers, so there’s that added level of loss
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Peggy Noonan | 03/12/2008 4:21 pm

What Made Eliot Spitzer Fall?

Peggy Noonan says it wasn’t his brain that got the soon-to-be ex-governor in trouble. So what was it?

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Peggy Noonan | 03/07/2008 7:32 pm

What's a Woman to Wear? wOw Asks Tina Isaac

What used to be called ladies fashion is on my mind
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My Foods:

  • Steak.
  • Fries.
  • Spinach.
  • Pasta.
  • Broccoli.
  • Bread.
  • Butter
  • Sparkling water or seltzer.
  • Cranberry juice and seltzer.

Dead To Me:

  • Suffering silently for no purpose.  Humility when it is not a virtue but just a denial, a tic.  Pride based on anything but effort.   

I Don’t Care What They Say:

  • The loafers. The sneakers. The Manolos. The steak. The pasta. The Haagen Dazs. The Nicorettes. Life is short and we must enjoy it.

My Shoes:

  • The original car shoe with the little inch and a half heels.
  • Manolo Blahnik, two inch heels.
  • Good loafers that are worn in.
  • Sneakers that are not too much of a huge hunk of plastic on your feet.
  • My ancient cowboy boots. They understand my feet.

My Remedies:

  • Prayer makes everything better.  Everything. 
  • Getting out of the house and walking it out makes everything better.

I Love(d) Reading:

  • The biography of Samuel Johnson called Samuel Johnson by Jackson Bate.

I Love(d) Listening To:


I Love(d) Watching:

I Wish I Lived In:

  • Maybe the town in "It’s a Wonderful Life," Bedford Falls, before it became Pottersville. Actually I like living in my age. I like today.


Things I am Miserly About:


I Want To Own:

  • Something Lincoln wrote on.

I’m Addicted To:

  • I love drug stores and hardware stores and big box stores and can roam in them for hours.
  • I love seeing what’s for sale in America.
  • I love the internet.
  • I love the news.
  • I love to go to Broadway shows with my friends and discuss them with love or indignation in the cab on the way home.
  • Haagen Dazs.
  • I love to read history and biographies and autobiographies.
  • I love the moment when you just get to the table in the restaurant and you order water and they give you the menu and you think, "Oh I am about to eat well and talk to people I am fond of."

The First Thing I Do in the Morning Is:

  • I wash my face, willing my eyes into openness.

I Use:


I Admire:

  • See "I Respect."

I Respect:

  • You think something. You know if you say it some people will be unhappy, resentful, enraged. But you think it, and it’s important, so you say it. You do your very best to say it well, but even if you don’t, you’re trying. It’s our purpose to try.
  • St. Thomas More
  • Joan of Arc

What Wows Me:

  • The old theatrical hack in Tom Stoppard’s “Shakespeare in Love." He has to overcome his stutter to introduce the play, and he can’t, and it is opening night and he summons everything within him and suddenly he is speaking the preface to Romeo and Juliet, and he can do it, and now the play begins, and genius enters the world.
  • Angela Lansbury in "Sweeney Todd." She’s singing the lyric, "I’m your friend," to Sweeney and you hear all the desperation of the world in her voice and it fills your heart with love and terror.
  • The opening credits of "The Best Years of Our Lives", where so tenderly they signal, “Something big is coming here.”
  • Joni Mitchell
  • A first rate movie score.
  • A column that punches you in the nose with truth.