I finished reading Peggy Noonan’s book, A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag. It’s a good book. Some of it I’ve read before since I started reading her weekly columns in the Wall Street Journal about a year and a half ago, and the book was really a compilation of selected columns. She’s a very good writer, quite insightful, sometimes disconcertingly Catholic, usually thought-provoking. She’s not afraid to tell people to pray–and to admit that she prays. We need a lot more journalists who pray and mention it casually and seriously.