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. Prior to entering journalism, George Will taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto and served on the staff of the United States Senate. Until becoming a columnist for Newsweek, George Will was Washington editor of The National Review. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending mass at a Southern California church, the congregation of which soon became Spanish-speaking. Services were conducted... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/24/romes_call_come_on_over fc20f2e1-1eeb-45d7-8f3a-ce4507915eab Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would have been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/21/the_vacuity_of_double_triumphs 4356534d-2940-47f9-9a99-0cf2af812f8a Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:38:41 GMT WASHINGTON -- "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished than a hotel room. He likes it that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/20/the_indispensable_dispenser 13e8abb2-2396-4e42-afdc-7d7e199812b2 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health care and climate change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportion http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/17/when_the_charm_rubs_off 96b86980-0c04-41b7-9a96-ebc1abe2427d Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Two Saturdays ago, the nation was one tick of a Texas clock away from a cultural crisis. Nebraska led Texas 12-10 in the Big 12 Conference championship football game in Cowboys Stadium in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/13/congress_out_of_its_league_on_bcs f8501f7f-ebb0-46e1-8046-117d892f3629 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar ... -- George Gershwin WASHINGTON -- And at Rep. Ron Paul, the 2008 presidential candidate who had the zany ide http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/10/playing_politics_with_the_fed ee10922d-92c9-4d43-936b-6beb0514257a Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/06/earths_next_last_chance a71ff7fd-90cd-4874-bf21-2bc53ee49fec Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Barack Obama, who asked to be president, nevertheless deserves sy http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/02/this_will_not_end_well ea0607d1-8db3-4d19-a655-d0936694189a Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:40 GMT DENVER -- Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store -- which is what it really is -- involve... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/29/rocky_mountain_medical_high aca95ca1-de28-4b85-8ac7-0a956c8ee673 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Another huge value-destroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value. Another Katrina? No, another Christmas. This voluntary December calamity is explained i http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/26/scroogenomics 55bde77e-f72f-4181-93f6-51b91f2c92fe Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democrac http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/22/oils_expanding_frontiers d60c3d49-9a7d-4101-98f6-b500888b1037 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT PHOENIX -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an id http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/19/fighting_a_coercion_clause 57cfdfb2-cffe-44c9-b279-070605729c2a Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT NEW YORK -- The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/15/a_picture_can_lie 2e687f88-7a22-460a-89bf-c7e50e961486 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value "has never dropped to zero," a boast that surely sets a record for minimalism. Still, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/12/a_gold_standard_on_debt 15c8b7ae-9bbf-40dd-a091-8333679442fc Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unint http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/08/no_climate_for_a_change_treaty ba616587-5168-47d5-b2b0-ad984f30883a Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT