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
two over-you losing
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
past moments
The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
thinking addiction drug
There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
teaching iran iraq
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.
determination mind firsts
As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.
years europe bayonets
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.
fans tissues chicago
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
running two guy
Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
continents
Even the continents drift.
communication government dancer
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication.
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.