Will: America’s engine is being slowed by complacency
Today, the Great Enrichment might be running out of steam in the United States, which for two centuries has given propulsive energy to it.
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Will: New Vietnam documentary series provides a timely booster shot
The nation now needs an example of how to calmly assess episodes fraught with passion and sorrow. An example arrives Sunday night with Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War."
Will: Yale offers a tutorial in social descent
Summer brings no respite for academics committed to campus purifications, particularly at the institution that is the leader in the silliness sweepstakes, Yale. Its Committee on Art in Public Spaces...
Will: Laws that subvert the rule of law
When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts' Constitution a commitment to a "government of laws and not of men," he could not have imagined the modern proliferation and complexity of laws,...
Will: The GOP’s Southern Gothic page-turner
Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the Republican race to replace Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Will: When a diminishing president is a good thing
Fastidious people who worry that the president's West Virginia and Ohio performances -- the alpha male as crybaby -- diminished the presidency are missing the point, which is: For now,...
Will: The slovenly institution that is Congress
Tuesday afternoon, the irascible John McCain made a plea in the Senate for that body to return to "regular order." This was a response to the institutional slovenliness that exasperated...
Will: The wild blue yonder ain’t what it used to be
America's security challenges change much faster -- think of the Soviet Union's demise and the Islamic State's rise -- than new technologies can be conceived, designed, approved, built and deployed.
Will: The Democrat who knows the tax code is a “rotting carcass”
No Democrat, says Sen. Ron Wyden, likes the status quo. When he recently described the tax code as "a rotting economic carcass," his wife asked him to stop scaring the...
Will: What comes before the baby in the baby carriage? A diploma and marriage
The success sequence, which a decreasing number of young Americans follow, is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only...