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, he won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his newspaper column. In addition to his magazine and newspaper writing, Will is also an author and network-television broadcaster commentator. He 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. Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, in 1941, was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Oxford and Princeton universities. Prior to entering journalism, 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, 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) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. -- The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III's wife Charlotte might... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/07/04/the_valuable_self-validating_tradition f78aceba-1b82-437e-a4a5-705c3454ed06 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Two of Thursday's Supreme Court rulings -- both decided 5-4, and with the same alignment of justices -- concerned the Constitution's first two amendments. One ruling benefits Barack Obama by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/27/shining_a_supreme_light_on_the_candidates 324e042d-4ea8-4516-bae9-9b90b65b548f Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and a graduate... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/26/educated_policy_in_a_globalized_world da6bd9a3-7093-4b8a-ab6f-e55e686f842d Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Listening to political talk requires a third ear that hears what is not said. Today's near silence about crime probably is evidence of social improvement. For many reasons, including better... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/22/a_surprising_story_on_crime 34743e23-ebc1-441f-93f7-6ba646977957 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it "one of the worst decisions in the history of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/17/the_most_fearsome_power a1a81610-7c22-498a-86f4-fc600973d82d Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT "Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." -- Bill Veeck WASHINGTON -- One must say it ain't so. Think of the designated hitter, which illustrates why... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/15/hope_and_change_for_baseball 456528ee-40b9-4d6d-b02c-f324e525015d Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Presidential politics, like football, chess and other rule-bound competitions, is simple in objective but complex in execution. The objective is 270 electoral votes. This year the execution... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/12/big_numbers_this_election_year 20242f29-33f3-4bce-8d60-c211a373cda4 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- An axiom. When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies? When the presumptive nominee considers this or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/06/the_importance_of_the_veep_choice 9a9c4b5d-376e-49ec-8596-f195f135a635 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Rising in the Senate on May 13, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, explained: "I rise to discuss rising energy prices." The president was heading to Saudi Arabia to seek an increase in its... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/05/holding_the_key_to_gas_prices be5c766c-a9a8-4e6f-817a-9609e08a6d9c Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON - An unprecedentedly radical government grab for control of the American economy will be debated this week when the Senate considers saving the planet by means of a cap-and-trade system to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/06/01/when_market-based_is_a_facade fae5a34a-dd90-43ad-bdfe-abc6c89e30c6 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Most improvements make matters worse because most new ideas are regrettable, including this not-quite-new one from John McCain's speech depicting how improved America will be after four years... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/05/29/mccain_ignores_delicate_balance c2371994-38fb-472e-9f8c-056ef3834d04 Thu, 29 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America's involvement... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/05/25/when_ordinary_just_isnt_appropriate e8d465b2-42bc-4ca3-9c2a-21a6eeb2d655 Sun, 25 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A preventive war worked out so well in Iraq that Washington last week launched another. The new preventive war -- the government responding forcefully against a postulated future threat --... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/05/22/the_united_states_new_pre-emptive_war dcf75dbb-0c5a-4e41-a787-14fa24e5529a Thu, 22 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Women, we are told by some people who say they know them, are not amused. Women, or at least those whose consciousnesses have been properly raised, supposedly think that the impatience being... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2008/05/18/the_clinton_chorus b5bc8a45-a172-4781-a659-4bc8f81646a5 Sun, 18 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT