Will: Repeal and replace? Instead, tweak and move on
In the future, the health care debate will be about not whether there will be a thick fabric of government subsidies, mandates and regulations, but about which party will weave...
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Will: Baseball’s pace of play needs some juice
MLB鈥檚 problems are related to its players being ever-stronger and increasingly using what baseball people call 鈥渁nalytics,鈥� aka information.
Will: The demolition of a 1931 law would make building much cheaper
"You really ought to give Iowa a try. Provided you are contrary." -- "Iowa Stubborn," from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man" "Contrary" does not quite capture Steve King's astringency. The...
Will: A $500 fine for expressing opinions without the proper license
If you're in Oregon, keep your opinions about engineering to yourself, lest you get fined $500 for practicing engineering without a license -- which actually happened to Mats Jarlstrom.
Will: William F. Buckley captained conservatism before it was hijacked
Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients. America needs a reminder of conservatism before vulgarians hijacked it.
Will: A portentous election in the Peach State
By the time Georgia's 6th District votes in the June 20 special congressional election, $40 million -- perhaps more than $130 per ballot -- will have been spent.
Will: Federal power spins its ever-growing web
Application of the Endangered Species Act to the Bone Cave Harvestman spider demonstrates that federal power, like kudzu, will expand everywhere and into everything until it is stopped.
Will: Culture thrives when it’s all shook up
The hysteria du jour, on campuses and elsewhere, against "cultural appropriation" illustrates progressivism's descent into authoritarianism leavened by philistinism.
Will: Who wants to be a billionaire (in 1916)?
Having bestowed the presidency on a candidate who described their country as a "hellhole" besieged by multitudes trying to get into it, Americans need an antidote for social hypochondria.
Will: Will France elect a Gallic Barack Obama?
The French are too intellectually vain to borrow others' political ideas, but too interested in style not to appreciate and appropriate that of others. So, on May 7 they might...