Peggy Noonan explores what America could be in ‘A Certain Idea of ​​America’

Peggy Noonan:

Oh, God.

When I had just started at The Wall Street Journal as a weekly columnist, 9/11 happened, and the next year I did 50 columns on 9/11. And in those columns I worked with everything, every intellectual obsession, every emotion, every fear.

And it was the early days when I was working online and a community arose around my columns where people who were going through exactly what I was would write in after they read my column and share their experiences. And it was something I had never seen before, because the Internet was new and what I was doing was new.

And, Geoff, it was wonderful. It was a community. We say all these fake words about healing and stuff, but it really was a community that arose and healed together. And in a way, I’ll never get over that, being a part of it. It was beautiful.