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
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.
space work-out mind
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
political liberty libertarian
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
illinois chicago fans
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.
change running thinking
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
agency government law
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.