George F. Will
George F. Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
CityChampaign, IL
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.
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Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.
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Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds.
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Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
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Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of ""experts"" become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some ""they"" is manipulating ""us,"" using, among other dark arts, advertising.
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All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.
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The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
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Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
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Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.
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Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
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Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.