John Meroney

California

“FBI Profilers” (#1 podcast series on Audible) producer; “The Pinehurst Cure and the Road to the US Open” executive producer; @gardenandgun contributing editor.

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Articles

Stopping the Steal-in 1962

Oct 3, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | John Meroney

This election is rigged. That was the word that Jimmy Carter got by phone. A message that became his obsession. One that changed his life. It was Election Day, 1962. Carter was a 38-year-old Georgia peanut farmer and chairman of the Sumter County School Board. He was running in a Democratic primary for a new seat in the Georgia State Senate, hopeful that voters in Southwest Georgia would select him to represent them in Atlanta.
Becoming Santa Claus

Dec 12, 2023 | gardenandgun.com | John Meroney |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Santa Claus didn’t use the chimney that Christmas Eve, and he didn’t wait until we all went to sleep. It was 1973 and St. Nicholas was standing in front of me in my grandmother’s house in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. I was three years old. Mamaw’s house in Powell Valley—nestled in the Jefferson National Forest, along the Trail of the Lonesome Pine—provided the perfect setting for this life-altering yuletide encounter.
The Peace Process Is Dead. Let's Bury It

Oct 29, 2023 | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Harry V. Jaffa |Michael M. Uhlmann |John Meroney |Mark Judge

The Oslo “Peace Process” is dead. It is time for a public burial, before the corpse infects the landscape even more than it has already. As the fighting between Israelis and Palestine Liberation Organization-led Palestinians escalates, American policy lamely calls for an end to the fighting and a return to the conference table. But the fighting is a consequence of all the previous visits to the conference table.
A Tribute to a Football-Loving Father

Jun 13, 2023 | gardenandgun.com | John Meroney |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian