GEORGE WILL
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OPINION: Supreme Court faces a troubling situation 
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court faces a discomfiting decision. If it chooses, as it should, to hear a case concerning racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas, the court will confront evidence of its complicity in harming the supposed beneficiaries of preferences the court has enabled and encouraged.
By George Will , December 02, 2011
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OPINION: First Amendment, laws about lying sometimes at odds
WASHINGTON — The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, a compound of political pandering and moral exhibitionism, was whooped through the Senate, aka the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” by unanimous consent; the House, joining the stampede, passed it by a voice vote. So Xavier Alvarez now hopes the Supreme Court will save him from punishment for lying. And his is not the only case arising from government supervising speech that is demonstrably, or arguably, inaccurate.
By George Will , November 17, 2011
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OPINION: What it was, was football
WASHINGTON -- A few millennia from now, when archaeologists from an ascendant Brazil or Turkey or wherever sift the shards of American civilization and find the ruins of the Big House in Ann Arbor, Mich., they will wonder why a 109,901-seat entertainment venue was attached to an institution of higher education.
By George Will , November 09, 2011
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OPINION: Drowning in a river of words
WASHINGTON — You step onto an airport’s moving walkway, a flat metal conveyor belt that conveys travelers down an airport concourse, sparing them the indignity of burning a few calories by walking a bit. And soon a recorded voice says: “The moving sidewalk is coming to an end. Please look down.”
By George Will , October 26, 2011
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OPINION:Progressives fight initiative process they helped to create
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government ...
— U.S. Constitution
By George Will , October 20, 2011
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OPINION: A frank ‘cure’ for fed
WASHINGTON — “If two people always agree,” says Ben Bernanke, “one of them is redundant.” So, imagine what the Federal Reserve chairman thinks of Rep. Barney Frank’s legislation designed to dampen dissent within the Fed.
By George Will , September 28, 2011
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OPINION: Post-9/11 America a demoralized nation
WASHINGTON — On Dec. 8, 1951, the day after the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, The New York Times’ front page made a one-paragraph mention of commemorations the day before, when the paper’s page had not mentioned the anniversary. The Dec. 8 Washington Post’s front page noted no commemorations the previous day.
By George Will , September 13, 2011
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OPINION: Dem governor cooks up purple brew in Colorado
DENVER — “Beer,” said Benjamin Franklin, who knew a thing or two about pleasure, “is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” If so, perhaps He wanted John Hickenlooper to be Colorado’s governor.
By George Will , September 02, 2011
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OPINION: If everything isn’t free, nothing is safe
MADISON, Wis. — The residues of liberalism’s Wisconsin Woodstock — 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities — are words of plaintive defiance painted on sidewalks around the state capitol.
By George Will , August 25, 2011
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OPINION: Not so ‘special’ anymore for US, Great Britian
LONDON — During the Second World War, a future prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” How goes the tutoring of Rome by Athens?
By George Will , August 18, 2011
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OPINION: ‘Morbidly obese’ British government goes on diet
LONDON — The chancellor of the exchequer has a dry, sly sense of humor. George Osborne, 40, says Britain escaped the sort of housing bubble and crash that staggered America because, whereas America recklessly expanded its housing stock, “We were saved by the fact that you can’t build anything in this country.”
By George Will , August 11, 2011
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OPINION: 'The Declaration of Independents' on Bachmann's reading list
WASHINGTON — August is upon us, beaches beckon, and Michele Bachmann has set the self-improvement bar high.
By George Will , August 04, 2011
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OPINION: Bin Laden case shows it may be time for NATO to be abandoned
Osama bin Laden’s death was announced on May 1, a date that once had worldwide significance on the revolutionary calendar of communism, which was America’s national security preoccupation prior to Islamic terrorism. Times change.
By George Will , May 03, 2011
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Opinion: Polticians seek a money tree
WASHINGTON — Memo to Democratic senators eager to vote themselves campaign subsidies in the name of combating corruption: You really should not cloak your selfserving crusade in a claim that could be called intellectual corruption.
By George Will , April 29, 2011
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Proof that 'conservative populist' not oxymoron
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The morning Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve’s regional bank here, announced that he would retire Oct. 1, newspapers nationwide reported that henceforth the Fed’s chairmen will hold quarterly news conferences. This is probably both regrettable and inevitable.
By George Will , April 21, 2011
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