George Will

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed…

— George Will

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because…

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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled…

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[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a…

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“In this snug, over-safe corner of the world… we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but…

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Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to…

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In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more…

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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue.…

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Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in…

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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump…

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“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion…

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The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what…

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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.…

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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting…

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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to…

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Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man…

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America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that…

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Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that…

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“The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common…

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Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms…

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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump…

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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their…

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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a…

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Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is…

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I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became…

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In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and…

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Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and…

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Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo…

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As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of…

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Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man…

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Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small…

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I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism…

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Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics…

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I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation…

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If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's…

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Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is…

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The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for…

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There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized…

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For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because…

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