George Will
George 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
sports baseball bigs
It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created...
top-down tissues coercion
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
people rooms messages
The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.
sports competition auras
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
children chaos program
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
sports religious greek
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.
men space messy
Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
war mean liberty
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
men self long
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a
leadership country jobs
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
powerful men humanity
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
people leaving privacy
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.
president dimes
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
government suffering politics
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.