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This month's bonus episode is the latest entry in our Pundit Portraits series: a brief dissection of the work of Peggy Noonan, a Reagan speechwriter turned opinion page mainstay and occasional conspiracy theorist. Subscribe to listen at patreon.com/ifbookspod

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Zenodotus's avatar Zenodotus @zenodotus.bsky.social
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Seinfeld voice: "Noonan!"

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Eric's avatar Eric @ejmaron.bsky.social
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If you haven't done Dowd yet, can you guys just spend two hours reading her headlines and subheaders?

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Michael Kimbell's avatar Michael Kimbell @shotpoint.bsky.social
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I’m going to write a book titled “My Conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt” where I just hallucinate it all and see if I can win a Pulitzer

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Sensual Kazoo's avatar Sensual Kazoo @sensualkazoo.bsky.social
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This one made me yell angrily while cooking breakfast.

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Ben Alpers's avatar Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social
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The little intro on that kid in your grade-school class who already had "kids these days" opinions reminded me of an part of Ezra Klein's origin story: supporting the invasion of Iraq in 2002-3 as a college student because he found the anti-war kids at UC Santa Cruz annoying.

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