George Will

George F. Will is one of the most widely recognized, and widely read, writers in the world, appearing in more than 450 newspapers. He also writes a column for Newsweek, is a contributing analyst for ABC News and has been a regular member of ABC's "This Week" on Sunday mornings since 1981.

In 1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and has received several other major awards over the years. Before entering journalism, Will taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto, and served on the staff of U.S. Sen. Gordon Allott. Before joining Newsweek, he was Washington editor of the National Review.

Columns

'Tax' excuse lets Congress slip the constitutional leash - 6/16/2013
In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany.
Scowling face of the state has earned Americans' distrust - 6/13/2013
As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did.
Too sweet to kill: how irrational subsidies are perpetuated - 6/9/2013
The steamboat conveying Andrew Jackson up the Ohio River toward his tumultuous 1829 inauguration had brooms lashed to its bow, symbolizing Old Hickory's vow to clean up Washington.
Leahy, Paul team up to seek some sense on sentencing - 6/6/2013
Libertarians believe government should have a compelling reason before it restricts an individual's liberty.
Costly but no safer: a mandate that is off the rails - 6/2/2013
Texting while driving is dangerous, especially if you are driving a train. A commuter train engineer was texting on Sept.
'Alice in Wonderland' coercion at the Office for Civil Rights - 5/26/2013
Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many...
Like George Wallace, NLRB stands in the schoolhouse door - 5/23/2013
Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A.
Obama's shrinking presidency has no room for an agenda - 5/19/2013
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.
Already, it seems, we are forgetting Watergate's lesson - 5/16/2013
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ...
On immigration, ghosts of Christmas past - 5/12/2013
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment.
For Obama, 2014 is the number behind his policy priorities - 5/9/2013
Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct.
On Syria, a policy of sensible caution, poorly stated - 5/2/2013
People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical...
At last, signs of grown-ups in charge in Washington, D.C. - 4/28/2013
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother.
Japanese internment, racist policies and the shame of deference - 4/25/2013
Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v.
The GOP gets more interesting: one to watch in Michigan - 4/21/2013
America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich.
Debt, regulation are political kin, and politically dangerous - 4/18/2013
The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions.
The story of the 'Central Park Five,' graphically told - 4/14/2013
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words...
Celebrating the vigorous virtues of Margaret Thatcher - 4/9/2013
She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe.
Johns Hopkins students perpetuate pro-'choice' intolerance - 4/7/2013
We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so.
Propaganda: The real mission of public education - 4/4/2013
The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R's — formerly reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic — now...
Batter up! — and take a swing at these - 3/31/2013
As the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball's return with mental calisthenics.
On war, Congress has committed bipartisan abdication - 3/28/2013
"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as...
For GOP substance, deregulate campaign contributions - 3/24/2013
Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation's governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning.
Marriage and the Constitution: a matter of jurisprudence - 3/21/2013
"Under the Constitution, the regulation and control of marital and family relationships are reserved to the states."
Same-sex marriage could lure court into uncharted territory - 3/17/2013
When on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether California's ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to "equal protection of the laws," these arguments will...
Zinsser wishes more students would learn the art of good writing - 3/14/2013
When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip."
Bork was on the job when Washington was really grim - 3/7/2013
"When I first met Richard Nixon," Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, "I could see in his expression the conviction that someone had blundered badly."
Political class is in a rut on the Voting Rights Act - 3/3/2013
Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress.
The Fed's not-so-golden rule has failed to boost economy - 2/28/2013
RICHMOND, Va. — A display case in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank here might express humility. The case holds a 99.9 percent pure gold bar weighing 401.75 troy ounces.
The hamsters of sequestration: a manufactured crisis - 2/24/2013
Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria.