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
Things explain each other, not themselves.
would-be mathematical term
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
art mets situation
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
honesty firsts sincerity
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
lines cadence pulse
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.
beautiful world clarity
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
art poetry records
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.
self mystery
The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
real cutting knowing
A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.
men produce american-politics
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
blood ice water
You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
war reading veteran
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.
war reading bird
I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.
thinking feelings soldier
It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.