George F. Will, whose newspaper column has been syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group since 1974, today appears in more than 460 papers. In 1976, Will became a regular Newsweek contributor, providing the backpage essay twice a month. In the same year, George Will won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his newspaper column. In addition to his magazine and newspaper writing, George Will is also an author and network-television broadcaster commentator. George Will is Contributing Analyst with ABC-TV News on World News Tonight, and has been a regular member of ABC's This Week on Sunday mornings since 1981. Four collections of his Newsweek and newspaper columns have been published. Most recently, his book Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (1989, Macmillan) topped national bestseller lists in the number-one position for over two months. George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, in 1941, was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Oxford and Princeton universities. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- Actress Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing here, portraying someone less than regal -- flurried, anxious Blanche DuBois, in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/04/out_stranger_in_kabul 2a9da64f-a784-41a9-b5da-5d1c2004c715 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT SEATTLE -- Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states:... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/01/disclosure_as_liberal_coercian b7c74d52-7097-4365-8ae9-97b25bff3a43 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- During his immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about "farm parties." Then he realized they meant "pharm parties" -- sampling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/29/dose_of_realism_in_a_drug_war 69f3c8f5-d60d-4062-b70f-97d53dd918bf Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000 he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/25/gops_new_lightning_rod 69197056-1d97-49e2-8939-fc9b0409a22b Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named Fanne Foxe, aka "The Argentine Firecracker" (Mills joined http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/22/another_entitlement_for_seniors 9d04ced1-c04c-4e32-bfc9-1727927d04e6 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named Fanne Foxe, aka "The Argentine Firecracker" (Mills joined her on stage at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/22/another_entitlement_for_seniors 15626a00-a99b-4ed2-9317-916c531cbc01 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As Harvard's president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their tender feelings hurt by his occasional testiness, co http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/18/stimulating_incumbency 00930155-4436-4036-b43b-6389422f00f3 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/15/could_a_wave_be_building 35ce4291-0dc7-4e70-a13e-d86b1aabf2cd Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Consider nature. Not the placid nature that Constable painted, but nature as Tennyson saw it, "red in tooth and claw." To glimpse a state of nature as Hobbes imagined it, where human life is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/11/anger_management_hits_a_hump a9f55769-66ec-4617-8726-55d71c4cd610 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the International Olympic http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/05/olympic_gold_for_narcissism 8beb32e5-9be0-4cca-88da-3676231776af Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:02:18 GMT WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, the president's "engagement" with Iran began. This Wednesday, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth year. And U.S. foreign policy is entering a White Queen phase. In "Th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/04/enter_the_white_queen 8fa3868b-ed78-4910-90d7-71d810c71709 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution -- New York Times, Sept. 23 WASHINGTON -- In this headline on a New York Times story about difficulties confronting people ala http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/10/01/on_climate,_bad_news_will_resume 948bd666-c50c-4e8c-8701-8ca13d0fa58f Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT MIAMI -- Florida, a geological afterthought, was the last portion of what are now the lower 48 states to emerge from the ocean, and it emerged halfheartedly: Its highest point is just 345 feet above sea... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/09/27/a_principled_conservative c812faba-800c-4158-8117-b74f813ba779 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- While in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent President Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London, to be strong in resisting domestic pressures for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/09/23/a_willowy_weakness 5eb23752-4818-4bff-b9f0-24df098b3610 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT