George Will

Columns

• South Carolina go-getters change the state for the better - 9/9/2010

  KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C.

• Environmentalist Bambi has become Godzilla - 9/5/2010

  The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has continued since "the Cluster...

• Rocky Mountain Senate showdown could be pivotal - 9/2/2010

  DENVER — Put away the pitchfork metaphors that are prevalent in this season of populist ferment: Colorado's Senate contest is a duel of distinguished diplomas.

• In families, numbers work out to nothing but tragedy - 8/29/2010

  Various figures denote vexing social problems. They include 10,000 (the number of new baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day), 10.

• Seeing through the Middle East peace process mirage - 8/26/2010

  JERUSALEM — Immersion in this region's politics can convince those immersed that history is cyclical rather than linear — that it is not one thing after another but the same thing over...

• The reality on Israel's plate — what, really, is there to negotiate? - 8/22/2010

  JERUSALEM — 'Twas a famous victory for diplomacy when, in 1991 in Madrid, Israelis and Palestinians, orchestrated by the United States, at last engaged in direct negotiations.

• Israelis don't need the lectures on taking risks - 8/19/2010

  JERUSALEM — In the intifada that began in 2000, Palestinian terrorism killed more than 1,000 Israelis. As a portion of U.S.

• Netanyahu's warning about Iran is abundantly clear - 8/15/2010

  JERUSALEM — When Israel declared independence in 1948, it had to use mostly small arms to repel attacks by six Arab armies.

• In Churchill's spirit: Netanyahu is the antithesis of Obama - 8/12/2010

  JERUSALEM — Two photographs adorn the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

• Governor offers a Puerto Rican option for the GOP - 7/18/2010

  A Republican governor — a very Republican governor — has an idea for solving one of his party's conundrums.

• America's foreign policy: the high price of hubris - 7/15/2010

  The story mocks a cliche: As they were leaving the Garden of Eden, Adam said to Eve, "Darling, we live in an age of transition."

• Campaign finance reform plans awash in bad intentions - 7/11/2010

  Two splendid recent developments have highlighted how campaign finance "reforms" have become the disease they pretend to cure.

• Our long, national hangover is still far, far from the end - 7/8/2010

  The evening of Jan.

• Sharron Angle: a nobody angling for a knockout - 7/4/2010

  LAS VEGAS — Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum.

• Putting snap, crackle and pop in Kagan's confirmation - 6/28/2010

  Pursuant to Elena Kagan's expressed enthusiasm for confirmation hearings that feature intellectual snap, crackle and pop, here are some questions the Senate Judiciary Committee can elate her by...

• Some questions Elena Kagan should relish on Monday - 6/27/2010

  Given Elena Kagan's aversion to "vapid and hollow" confirmation hearings devoid of "legal analysis," beginning Monday she might relish answering these questions:

• McChrystal was the wrong choice for a fool's errand - 6/24/2010

  In 1932, during a lunch in Albany with Rexford Tugwell, an adviser, Gov. Franklin Roosevelt paused to take a telephone call from Louisiana Gov. Huey Long.

• U.S. forces consumed by caution in Afghanistan - 6/21/2010

  Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer (NCO) serving in Afghanistan.

• On Afghanistan, fast-forward — but to what end? - 6/17/2010

  Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology.

• California's 'top two' proposition makes things worse - 6/13/2010

  Under the current imperfect administration of the Universe, most new ideas are false, so most ideas for improvements make matters worse.

• The comprehensive nightmare of a jobless recovery - 6/10/2010

  Concerning the job numbers from May, one can almost echo Henry James' exclamation after examining letters pertaining to Lord Byron's incest: "Nauseating, perhaps, but how quite inexpressibly...

• Madison, Wilson and the limits of a welfare state - 6/3/2010

  Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James Madison, class of 1771, and Woodrow Wilson, class of 1879.

• A bit of frugality theater on the national stage - 5/30/2010

  Barack Obama, an unbeliever genuflecting before the altar of frugality, is asking Congress, as presidents do, to give him something like a line-item veto.

• Wisconsin's Ron Johnson is running, not shrugging - 5/27/2010

  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.

• For Democrats, not much good news in primary results - 5/20/2010

  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.

• Europe's lack of discipline means recklessness will proliferate - 5/16/2010

  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.

• Crony capitalism and the strength of weakness - 5/13/2010

  To understand the pertinence to America of events in Greece, notice General Motors' most recent misbehavior.