Peggy Noonan

The problem is not that Americans are disheartened over inability to solve our problems.  Here is what Noonan is missing I started reading Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal some time ago. Unfortunately, all too frequently I found her disappointing. Yes, she was a speechwriter for President Reagan, but since then she [...]  

DOWNLOADS: (7) PLAYS: (28) What are Peggy Noonan and Walter Isaacson smoking?—and Fareed Zakaria for that matter. During this 'very serious' debate...  

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Hedge-funder Mark Spitznagel in the Wall Street Journal huzzahs Ludwig von Mises' nearly century-old Theory of Money and Credit for laying out the basics about why we are in such an econ-jam these days, and pointing toward a path alas not-taken toward a solution. An excerpt: when the government holds rates artificially low in order to feed ever higher capital investment in otherwise unsound, unsustainable...  

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.  

Jeffrey Zaslow, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the international bestseller “The Last Lecture,” will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Indiana State University’s Tilson Auditorium as part of the University Speakers Series. A book signing and reception in Heritage Lounge is planned immediately following his talk. Both the presentation and reception are free.  

In the immediate term, we should move slowly. In an unstable time, in an unstable environment, with many movable pieces and uncertain dynamics, the best thing to do, often, is nothing dramatic. When all is excitable, move deliberately, thoughtfully. Listen, weigh and consider, with the emphasis on listen.  

Andrew Samwick is shrill: >A Question for Peggy Noonan: When Did Our Callous Childhood Begin: A friend pointed me to this column by Peggy Noonan in last week's WSJ, "We're Governed by Callous Children." I think she is right in her main point about a disheartened leadership class in business and a mindless leadership class in government. >But she makes the same mistake that other Republican commentators make when they criticize our current...  

Peggy Noonan gets most things right, with verve and wit, and even when she’s wrong her writing is often impressive enough to pull along even disagreeing readers. She usually hits the slow pitches of idiocy and offensiveness thrown by our...  

Three-steps-from-crazy-cat-lady WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan is teaching at Harvard. Our spies report: "Peggy's a ridiculous, hilarious person to speaking with any authority on anything at all." They've provided us with her awesome quotes. We're presenting them emoticon-contextualized them for you...  

Glenn Reynolds linked this piece by the ordinarily very average Noonan. Peggy seems to have discovered that incentives matter, or at least stumbled into an actual live specimen businessman who understands that incentives matter. PEGGY NOONAN: We’re Governed by Callous Children: Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice. But John Galt [...]  

It is Hell-o-ween come early, children. Gather ’round, for Dame Peggington Noonington, chief word-writer for the notable Wall Street Journal banking pamphlet, hath composed a Second Weekly Article, doubleth her normal output. She worketh harder than most humans. It is her Duty and she shall performeth it, in times of national crisis, such as it [...]  

Many recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have not been elected officials or government leaders, so their political leanings are hard to determine. Of the ones who are, US Republicans include Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Charles Gates Dawes, Frank ...  

"Mom, what are you talking about? You're not that old. You're not going to die soon...mom, I don't know if people still care about the Sarah Palin 'bullshit' thing you said!...no, it won't affect your legacy. Stop asking me...hey, the soccer field's up here, can you drop me off?" Steverino Begins  

When former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan appears on the Sunday political shows to play token neocon, viewers are guaranteed a tour de force of of overly exaggerated facial expressions. Watch the fun we had with Peggy and that horrendous footage! read more