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
writing people political
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.
practice ideas america
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
cat phrases pets-cats
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
wedding-day remember cubs
All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.
work character perfection
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
communication noise normal
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
baseball games long
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
football inspiration nfl
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
apples pie cheesy
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
country years ideas
We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,
television pastime watching-television
Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
dark age warfare
National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.
positive-thinking ordinary persons
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
wise memories winter
It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.