Will: An adult voice amid pandemic childishness
At this moment of pandemic vulgarity and childishness, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III's elegiac memoir is a precious reminder of what an adult voice sounds like.
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Will: Who will protect Americans from their protectors?
Today, a Republican administration promises that wisely wielded Washington power can rearrange commercial activities in ways superior to those produced by private-sector calculations in free-market transactions.
Will: Where Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong
With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, "If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence," but "there is no such philosophizing in our...
Will: An excess of intellectual emptiness
Much attention has been given to the non-college-educated voters who rallied to Donald Trump. Insufficient attention is given to the role of the college miseducated.
Will: A most dreadful inaugural address by Donald Trump
Trump vindicated his severest critics by serving up re-heated campaign rhetoric about "rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape."
Will: Obama’s unforced errors on foreign policy
Obama's policies that brought America to a pinnacle of admiration, as he sees it, were an amalgam of Wilsonian and anti-Wilsonian elements.
Will: Making America 1953 again
Of the 5.6 million manufacturing jobs lost in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010, trade accounted for 13 percent of job losses and productivity improvements accounted for more than 85...
Will: Peace on Earth — through better military technology
The daunting challenge posed by defense against the proliferating threat of ballistic missiles is that it is prohibitively expensive to be prepared to intercept a swarm of incoming missiles.
Will: Nobel laureate Bob Dylan revisited
By George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many say that however well...
Will: The sensitivity police strike again
By聽George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group The word "inappropriate" is increasingly used inappropriately. It is useful to describe departures from good manners or other social norms, such as wearing...