Newsweek Columnists - George F. Will

Clarence Thomas and the Voting Rights Act

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:56:20 GMT

The high court's misplaced modesty.

Will: How Barney Frank Intervened at GM

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:19:50 GMT

And green guy. So he pressures GM.

Did Sotomayor Save Baseball? Not Really.

Fri, 29 May 2009 21:35:46 GMT

Actually, more like a pop foul.

Why Ray LaHood Is Wrong

Sat, 16 May 2009 20:46:07 GMT

Secretary of Behavior Modification

George F. Will: Unsilent Barack

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:33:36 GMT

The trajectory of his presidency may have been determined by what he did in his first 100 days.

Will: Is There a "Community of Nations"?

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:47:08 GMT

A pandering Obama praised Europe's 'leading role in the world.' Actually, Europe exercises almost no leadership, even in Europe.

George Will: Good Things About Arne Duncan

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:26:38 GMT

Arne Duncan, the new secretary of education, says that under No Child Left Behind 'we have been lying to students and their parents.'

George F. Will: FDR's Sweater Fable

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:26:18 GMT

President Obama said he is strengthening government 'not because I believe in bigger government—I don't.' Chant: Yes you do.

George F. Will: Bootleggers' Delights

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:00:39 GMT

Banning Sunday liquor sales pleases Baptists—and also pleases bootleggers by increasing demand for their services.

Will: U.S. Better Off After Economy Recovers

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:15:27 GMT

Cows should die in Wisconsin so that mothers in Watts will pay more—a price government deems 'reasonable'—for their children's milk?

George F. Will: 43, for a Final Time

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:51:25 GMT

He takes his leave neither angry nor forlorn but rather with the serenity of someone sustained by a providential sense of history.

Almost Killing Hitler

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:52:41 GMT

The July 20, 1944, attempt was one of perhaps 15 by the German Resistance, which was neither negligible nor contemptible.

George F. Will: 2008--Rod, Eliot, Yuck

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:38:13 GMT

During the presidential contest between an African-American from Chicago and a plumber from Toledo, eros reared its beguiling head.

George Will: Ending 'Politics as Usual'

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:22:24 GMT

As usual, people are saying we must end 'politics as usual.' And as usual, few wonder why such politics are usual.

George F. Will: TARP and ADD

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:40:20 GMT

Congress has made bureaucrats into legislators; or perhaps it has made Hank Paulson into the fourth branch of government.

George F. Will: The Good Bad News

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:00:43 GMT

If the nation wants a really Rooseveltian intervention in the economy, it should celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday.

George Will Makes the Case for Westerns

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:00 GMT

The new movie 'Appaloosa' is welcome evidence that the Western genre is not wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay.

George F. Will: Farewell, Election Day

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:38:22 GMT

What kind of people will not vote if doing so requires them to get off their couches and visit neighborhood polling places?

George Will: Pencils and Politics

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:30:14 GMT

Who commands the millions of people involved in making a pencil? Who is in charge? Where is the pencil czar?

Heepism vs. Elitism

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Voters today demand empathy from candidates in a way that voters never did from austere George Washington or crusty John Adams.