Checks and Balance | US politics

A conversation with Peggy Noonan

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, the speechwriter and columnist on the age of Donald Trump

Peggy Noonan has been a close observer of American politics for over forty years. She was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and since 2000 has written a Pulitzer Prize-winning column for the Wall Street Journal. As Donald Trump’s second term approaches she joins us to talk about Trump’s political antecedents, the decline of political rhetoric and why she still loves America.
John Prideaux hosts with guest Peggy Noonan. Her latest book is “A Certain Idea of America”.

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