Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

She also wrote Reagan's address to the nation after the Challenger explosion drawing upon the poet John Magee's famous words about aviators who "slipped the surly bonds of earth. S. In 1989 Peggy Noonan returned with her son to her native New York.

Noonan is a trustee of the Manhattan Institute. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. She has also been widely recognized for her regular appearances on ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet The Press.