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DECLARATIONS
The American Spirit Is Alive in Texas
‘Hold the line,’ Jim Mattis exhorted soldiers. In the face of a disaster, civilians are doing just that.
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, Declarations, has run since 2000. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She lives in New York City. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
‘Hold the line,’ Jim Mattis exhorted soldiers. In the face of a disaster, civilians are doing just that.
It was beautiful: Up and down Madison Avenue, people stood together and looked upward.
A gifted leader might make the case for building more statues rather than tearing down the ones we have.
The Cuban Missile Crisis came at a less dangerous time, and involved less dangerous men.
The new chief of staff has the confidence of a general and the power of the last available grown-up.
Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn.
What happens when we elect a president who prefers to freelance rather than to lead.
Mosul is liberated, a fallen policewoman is mourned, and Donald Trump Jr. is exposed.
In a good Warsaw speech, Trump invokes one of Pope John Paul II’s great 1979 orations.
McConnell warns GOP senators they may end up having to work with the Democrats. They should.
The U.S. media capitalize on division. Meantime, Parisians hardly notice a terror attack.
