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
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Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
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All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.
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We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.
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Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
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If the Americans and Cubans could put aside some of their political differences and work out some of their programs, I think both the Americans and the Cuban people could benefit greatly from that relationship,
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It absolutely is a throwback. Cuban exiles are still worried about the Castro issue, and they hinge everything around that issue, the existence of Castro. But the rest of the country has long forgotten that this Cold War period ever happened.
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Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.
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A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.
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Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
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You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.