Peggy Noonan

Barack Obama's decision to think really hard about what to do in Afghanistan has been praised by most people who aren't Dick Cheney. Peggy Noonan tackles it in today's column, and by "it" we mean JFK and 50-year-old TV shows. Noonan thinks it is good that Obama is thinking! Noonan thinks it is bad that Obama is not asking the people who've been wrong about everything for years what they would do. The president is not, apparently, holding...  

The president is not, apparently, holding serious discussions with the most informed and concerned Republicans from Capitol Hill and what used to be called the foreign-policy establishment, and this, if true, is bad. The cliché that politics stops at the water's edge is a fiction worth preserving. It's a story that ought to be true and sometimes is true. There seems to be something in this president that resists really including the opposition...  

The wooden treasure ships commanded by Admiral Cheng-ho, a Chinese Ming dynasty eunuch, were among the largest vessels ever built, nautical monsters that by some accounts carried nine masts. Bigger by far than the ships of Christopher Columbus that ...  

Jane Austen is very funny. Her characters are vivid. The poise of her sentences is perfect. Her plots are pretty good—at least, they keep you reading. However, to write brilliant novels was not Jane Austen's foremost goal: What was most important ...  

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

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page takes a break from running Sarah Palin-authored op-eds today and instead runs a piece by one of her biggest journalistic supporters, Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard. It is, as Brendan Nyhan has already noted, not very persuasive. Continetti, whose book The Persecution of Sarah Palin comes out this week,...  

NOV 13 – If there’s one thing Indonesia needs, it’s a concerted effort to wipe out crippling graft. From that perspective, the showdown playing out now between the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission will say much about the country ...  

Something for those media executives considering building pay walls around their content, Matt Busse details how to read the WSJ for free using Google. “Oh, and this isn’t new. It’s been an open secret since at least March 2008,” adds Busse. Full post at this link… Similar Posts: Reuters: Google CEO raises doubts about Murdoch’s online pay walls Google Ads [...]  

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.  

Alexandra Pais/For The Star-LedgerThe Pfizer facility in South Brunswick was closed Monday.SOUTH BRUNSWICK -- Last week, Dow Jones announced it was closing its Wall Street Journal printing plant in South Brunswick, a move that will slash about 55 jobs. Then,...  

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...  

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...  

SYDNEY -- AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. Monday rejected an 11 billion Australian dollar (US$10 billion) takeover proposal that would see its French parent AXA SA and rival Australian wealth management firm AMP Ltd. split the business in two. The ...  

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 [...]