GEORGE WILL
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WILL: The vigorous virtues of Margaret Thatcher
Former prime minister Britain’s most formidable woman since Elizabeth I.
By George Will , April 10, 2013
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WILL: The art of good writing
When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip."
By George Will , March 14, 2013
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WILL: A rally cry to tame spending
Democrats not allergic to arithmetic must know the cost of their "fiscal cliff" victory.
By George Will , January 11, 2013
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WILL: Homestead Act was first comprehensive immigration law
This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell, historian at the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Neb., one of the National Park Service’s many educational jewels that make the NPS one of just two government institutions (the other is the U.S. Marine Band) that should be exempt from any budget cuts, for all eternity.
By George Will , December 26, 2012
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WILL: Conservatives need only bide their time
Romney was a diligent warrior. Next time, Republicans need a more likable one.
November 14, 2012
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WILL: Status quo preserved
WASHINGTON — America’s 57th presidential election revealed that a second important national institution is on an unsustainable trajectory. The first, the entitlement state, is endangered by improvident promises to an aging population. It is now joined by the political party whose crucial current function is to stress the need to reform this state. And now the Republican Party, like today’s transfer-payment state, is endangered by tardiness in recognizing that demography is destiny.
By George Will , November 09, 2012
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WILL: Obama: The real radical, ‘progressive’ president
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years ago, Barack Obama was America’s Rorschach test upon whom voters could project their disparate yearnings. To govern, however, is to choose, and now his choices have clarified him. He is a conviction politician determined to complete the progressive project of emancipating government from the Founders’ constraining premises, a project Woodrow Wilson embarked on 100 Novembers ago.
By George Will , September 06, 2012
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WILL: 'Cruel and unusual' punishment continues to change
WASHINGTON — In the 1790s, a Tennessee man convicted of horse theft got off easy. Instead of being hanged, as horse thieves often were, he was sentenced to “stand in the pillory one hour, receive thirty-nine lashes upon his bareback well laid on, have his ears nailed to the pillory and cut off, and that he should be branded upon one cheek with the letter H and on the other with the letter T, in a plain and visible manner.”
By George Will , June 27, 2012
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WILL: America's wealthiest counties in DC area
WASHINGTON — Montgomery County, Md., on the District of Columbia’s northern border, is a dormitory for the nation’s government, where federal workers’ sleep is disturbed only by dreams of new ways to improve us.
By George Will , June 14, 2012
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WILL: Rising college costs not paying for education
WASHINGTON — Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with “value.”
By George Will , June 07, 2012
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WILL: Legacy airlines suffering from market competition
In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Act codified a government-managed cartel. In the last three decades there have been 192 airline bankruptcies.
By George Will , April 17, 2012
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WILL: Romney running mate should offer adult supervision
Although Obama is not nearly as well educated as many thought, and he thinks, he surely knows he was absurd when he said last Monday, regarding Obamacare, that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to overturn a “passed law.”
April 10, 2012
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WILL: A Nashville taxi driver battles entrenched interests
No good deed goes unpunished by today’s political model.
March 27, 2012
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