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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:50:31 GMT Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:50:31 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the Constitution is written." - Marbury v. Madison (1803) Debates about judicial review concern the pr http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/12/06/the_case_for_engaged_justices 0ef4945d-a28a-4fd1-aca7-5975189bb35a Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:50:31 GMT An eminent Harvard law professor, James Thayer (1831-1902), argued that although the judicial function is "merely that of fixing the outside border of reasonable legislative action," this still gives courts "a great and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/12/01/our_puritanical_progressives 64fb81db-f886-4e2f-80e0-e65638371efe Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:45:00 GMT MILWAUKEE -- Before what he calls "the jaw-dropping" events of the last 19 months -- TARP, the stimulus, Government Motors, the mistreatment of Chrysler's creditors, Obamacare, etc. -- the idea of running for office http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/27/running_not_shrugging 28d7776b-fae8-446e-b0d7-7e0c92465d83 Thu, 27 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The candidate who on Tuesday won the special election in a Pennsylvania congressional district is right-to-life and pro-gun. He accused his opponent of wanting heavier taxes. He said he would... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/19/in_politics,_as_good_as_it_gets be002c5a-929a-48a6-9bd5-106891b65e44 Wed, 19 May 2010 18:53:31 GMT WASHINGTON -- The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a stimulus package for the Supreme Court, which would rather not have one. The 9th Circuit, often in error but never in doubt, provides the Supreme Court with s http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/19/slow_learners_at_the_9th_circuit cb2fbca0-04c7-4d19-81d9-f03fb1c40e06 Wed, 19 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When Chancellor Angela Merkel decided that Germany would pay part of Greece's bills, voters punished her party in elections in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. How appropriate. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/16/europes_lack_of_discipline 2f7862e1-f071-4363-b89c-6ef8337f24af Sun, 16 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- When asked whether nationalism is putting down roots in Afghanistan's tribalized society, Gen. David Petraeus is judicious: "I don't know that I could say that." He adds,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/09/the_civilization_of_the_us_military cbc23c8d-40b5-4a93-9a1f-3519f81e60c2 Sun, 09 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- The ticking clock does not disturb the preternatural serenity that Gen. David Petraeus maintains regarding Afghanistan. Officially, the U.S. Central Command is located here; actually, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/06/hostage_to_a_timetable 09cf2b7a-0f22-4631-b2a9-35777f09eabd Thu, 06 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- "Physician, heal yourself," said the founder of the church in which Roger Mahony is a cardinal. He is the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles and he should heed the founder's admonition before... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/05/02/when_indignation_trumps_information 8054747f-d682-4d82-b5b0-7cbb839dea81 Sun, 02 May 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- "Misguided and irresponsible" is how Arizona's new law pertaining to illegal immigration is characterized by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She represents San Francisco, which calls itself a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/28/a_law_arizona_can_live_with 2555c2bf-45f7-455b-be13-085163833b49 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:25:16 GMT WASHINGTON -- Hearing about a shortage of farm laborers in California, the couple who would become Susumu Ito's parents moved from Hiroshima to become sharecroppers near Stockton. Thus began a saga that recently bro http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/25/in_praise_of_cheerful_men 8d6867df-b244-40dd-b3b0-d057007f320d Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT MORRISVILLE, Pa. -- The bridge spanning the Delaware River connects New Jersey's capital with this town where the nation's most interesting governor occasionally eats lunch at Cafe Antonio. It also connects New Jers http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/22/the_thunder_roars_in_trenton 3bc6d910-f1fe-497a-a85e-08a672978d85 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it -- after the 16th Amendment is repealed. A VAT will be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/18/if_vat,_ditch_the_income_tax 82918a47-fcd9-4205-b0cf-56039636dd0b Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Stiffening their sinews and summoning up their blood, pugnacious liberals and conservatives who relish contemporary Washington's recurring Armageddons are eager for a summer-long struggle over Barack O http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/15/no_political_experience_required 639a6703-c528-4f80-a746-1e45d2a9e53f Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A puzzle from Philosophy 101: If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? A puzzle from the prairie: If an earthquake occurs in Illinois and no one notices, is it really a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/11/facing_up_to_a_pension_crisis 6e9c209a-942c-42f6-a250-e92b99da8ee8 Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The times truly are out of joint when the most important IPO -- initial public offering -- of 2010 could come from what was American capitalism's iconic corporation for most of its 102 years. Andrew Bary,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/08/intersection_for_a_disaster 883ef05e-2962-4bce-9dc7-bdf0dc6fb6ee Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The 2006 summit that preserved the peace occurred in a laundry room in the Minneapolis Metrodome after the Twins beat the Red Sox 8-1. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, with center fielder Torii Hunter i http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/04/why_batters_get_hit dd25e306-5709-40b0-aec8-3ac09cd280dc Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT PHOENIX -- In 1994, when first running for Congress, J.D. Hayworth, who today is 51 and trying to wrest from John McCain, 73, the Arizona Republican Party's Senate nomination, went jogging in Washington wearing a T- http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/04/01/shootout_at_the_arizona_corral 2fb2dea1-4732-4dbe-b1e7-4eddfd3904f0 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- A simple reform would drain some scalding steam from immigration arguments that may soon again be at a roiling boil. It would bring the interpretation of the 14th Amendment into conformity with what the http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/28/a_birthright__maybe_not e799bc86-62a1-4b8d-be15-c80d6728fe29 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT "And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/22/searching_for_obamacares_silver_lining 498508b4-2b57-41e0-8201-34c7febecfc0 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:38:52 GMT WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Speaking in Alabama at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/21/mrs_jellyby,_stuck_in_the_sixties 77d16e8c-7d23-468e-9abb-d6613c3132ea Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/18/betting_again_on_an_education_fix 4d063c96-8135-4671-84d8-1dbe53083f84 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union, and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/11/sis_boom_bah_humbug 49e7c1cf-80a2-4784-b33f-e1c4bdd718e5 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:34:53 GMT WASHINGTON -- There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/11/in_the_wilsonian_tradition 4a796881-915e-4fd8-a210-ea5f1b435d37 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/07/case_for_a_scythe 28823197-4470-49e0-9123-fba84bdd139a Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all parents -- who are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/03/04/self-esteem,_self-destruction 7b1d3302-eec1-4b76-9575-5d8adb076161 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/28/a_cure_for_character 761ecc84-473b-4123-bf28-c4fc179a9d3f Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Today's health policy "summit" comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being "broken." Such talk occurs only when th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/25/in_praise_of_saying_no eb32690f-49da-4721-8387-a2f60663e29f Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, emulate the cool detachment of scientific discourse http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/21/blinded_by_science 1a28188f-f9ba-4e7b-ba18-c429c4c4c289 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dime http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/18/mutual_loathing_society dfd05a0b-1742-4305-86c6-9a6f2821ef74 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Only two things are infinite -- the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school choice program. Killing this small program, which currently benefits 1,300 mostly poor a http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/14/the_dependency_agenda a43c0ae4-f089-47c7-b6f1-affe6fe51c98 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- Political speculation swirls. Meg Whitman, billionaire former eBay CEO and leading candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, supposedly prefers not to run in tandem with C http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/11/right_turn_on_the_left_coast f7b1c7b9-2881-48b4-94fa-eff00ed5f793 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:23:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan. The former congressman f http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/07/charting_our_way_to_solvency 720b5971-8ee8-4129-9fd5-a5441972c14a Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- On Day One of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending. This would follow an astonishing permanent expan http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/02/04/a_future_rooted_in_the_past 55675fbb-7096-4ef7-9697-e6ee5fd631a3 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/28/a_lobe_divided_will_not_stand 9818be9f-dc0f-4578-a243-d997af650929 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:47:10 GMT WASHINGTON -- Last week's Supreme Court decision that substantially deregulates political speech has provoked an edifying torrent of hyperbole. Critics' dismay reveals their conviction: Speech about the elections th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/28/a_reform_wisely_struck_down a565d8e3-4603-4c89-b031-385b02ab6b74 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Churchill's wife said that his being turned out of office by British voters in July 1945 -- the war in the Pacific still raged, and he had just returned from the Potsdam conference -- might... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/24/mandate_to_moderate 6d134d71-2e36-4d8e-9e30-3f5b5407c0f6 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT "We are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded congresses and presidents for generations." -- President Barack Obama, Dec. 15, on health care legislation. Precipice, 1. a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/20/the_curse_of_opportunity dee56857-9829-4759-892e-a86e2bace0a6 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:24:49 GMT WASHINGTON -- You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/17/off-the-cliff,_but_catching_on e76c7e19-022a-4530-92c3-bb721572b803 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Although Democrats think their health care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead -- a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume i http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/14/rock_on_the_health_care_road b9bd89a8-efc7-4d15-b644-1f72ed9c334b Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was a hero to the American left, partly because of his 1939 anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun." Trumbo's title modified the lyric "Johnny get your gun" from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/10/golden_no_longer c62e43d8-40a4-4b74-afe3-87efd19e3fbd Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In 1957, Queen Elizabeth, attending a Maryland-North Carolina football game, asked Maryland's governor, "Where do you get all those enormous players?" He replied, "Your majesty, that's a very embarrass http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/07/pigskin_piggy_bank 51b94a2e-0b38-4a8d-97d1-c365cadcde9b Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT BROOKLYN -- On Aug. 27, 1776, British forces routed George Washington's novice army in the Battle of Brooklyn, which was fought in fields and woods where today the battle of Prospect Heights is being... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2010/01/03/a_blight_grows_in_brooklyn 635fa5b1-ab14-457d-910b-5b290306b9ba Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe -- it is expanding lickety-split -- is beyond Earth's atmosphere. Into what is it expanding? Hard to say. We can say there is lots of stuff i http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/12/31/out_of_catastrophe,_renewal 3e371973-d6ad-4eb9-868f-515c240b655f Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT 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