- George F. Will
- Opinion Writer
George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977. He is also an ABC News commentator and regular panelist on “This Week.” His books include: “One Man’s America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation ” (2008), “Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy” (1992), “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball” (1989), “The New Season: A Spectator’s Guide to the 1988 Election” (1987) and “Statecraft as Soulcraft” (1983). Will grew up in Champaign, Ill., attended Trinity College and Oxford University and received a Ph.D. from Princeton.
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- Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights
- Jon Will’s gift
- Going all the way with LBJ
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- The cabbie who is driving for liberty
- Obamacare’s contract problem
- The inexorable march of creative destruction
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- Union business, on the taxpayers’ dime
- Those pesky things called laws
- James Q. Wilson, honored prophet
- Plan B for stopping Obama
- Super PACs can’t crown a king
- The ghosts of Watergate
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- How states are restricting political speech
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- Ron Paul, spoiler?
- Choking on Obamacare
- Romney and Gingrich, from bad to worse
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- Privatize the nation’s mail delivery
- Feast on these 2011 turkeys
- Is there no limit to Congress’s power?
- Spending’s ascending — with or without a budget sequester
- Who gets to judge political truth?
- The irresistible force of college football
- This time, how about a debate of substance?
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- Sept. 11’s self-inflicted wounds
- Why liberals fear the ‘Lochner’ decision
- Question time for Republicans
- Colorado’s fresh brew
- School choice in Colorado
- Liberals’ Wisconsin Waterloo
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- America’s lost ally
- JFK’s Berlin blunder
- Britain tackles the welfare state
- Making hay at the Ames straw poll
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- Declaration of independents
- Congress stands its ground
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