List/Grid Author Archives: George Will / Syndicated Columnist
Government by the ‘experts’
“The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. . . . The power of the legislative, being derived from the people . . . [is] only to make laws,... Read more »
So Much Spent To Help So Few, While So Many Suffer
WASHINGTON – Because government is inherently dangerous and often mischievous, the Constitution’s framers provided, and congressional rules have multiplied, mechanisms for blocking government action. These mechanisms can, however, also be... Read more »
The NFL’s labor pains
NEW YORK – Although his Park Avenue office is as quiet as an empty stadium, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sits atop a seething volcano of fans who will erupt if... Read more »
Jon Huntsman’s thorny path to the GOP nomination
Donald Trump’s pathological political exhibitionism has ended, Newt Gingrich has incinerated himself with an incoherent retraction tour, Mitt Romney has reaffirmed his enthusiasm for his Massachusetts health-care law, rendering himself... Read more »
Presidency Quite Winnable for GOP
WASHINGTON — Asked three weeks ago if he would like to run for president, Mitch Daniels replied, “What sane person would like to?” His decision against running, following Haley Barbour’s... Read more »
Golden State blues
SACRAMENTO – In 1967, five years after California became the most populous state, novelist Wallace Stegner said that California — energetic, innovative, hedonistic — was America, “only more so.” Today,... Read more »
California Gov. Jerry Brown is too eager to embrace taxes
SACRAMENTO – Pausing in his struggle to solve, or to get others to solve, today’s iteration of California’s recurring fiscal crisis, Jerry Brown, the recurring governor, recently approved a new... Read more »
Labor Attack Violates Boeing’s Rights
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — This summer, the huge Boeing assembly plant here will begin producing 787 Dreamliners — up to three a month, priced at $185 million apiece. It will,... Read more »
Seeing History Without a Mirror
WASHINGTON — Outside the venue where Rep. Paul Ryan recently spoke in Madison, Wis., a university town never lacking protesters, one product of America’s education system shouted that Ryan’s budget... Read more »
The wonders of being 70
In 1960, after the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in an electrifying seven-game World Series, the Yankees fired manager Casey Stengel, who had turned 70 in July. The... Read more »
Chipping Away at School Monolith
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Covington hesitated before becoming this city’s 26th school superintendent in 40 years. A blunt-talking African-American from Alabama, he attended the Broad Superintendents Academy in Los... Read more »
Ex-Marine Takes on Assignment of Shaping Up Schools
WASHINGTON — During 25 years in the Marine Corps, including flying helicopters in Vietnam, Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican, developed the skill of maintaining small-unit cohesion. He will need... Read more »
