GEORGE WILL
GEORGE WILL: Sweet deal: Pampering of sugar growers never ends 
Sugar protectionism is forever. The Senate recently voted 54-45 against even mild reforms of the baroque architecture of protections for producers of sugar cane and sugar beets.
By George Will , June 09, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Seeking sense on prison sentencing
Libertarians believe government should have a compelling reason before it restricts an individual’s liberty. Today’s liberals believe almost any reason will do, because liberty is less important than equality, fraternity, fighting obesity, and many other aspirations.
By George Will , June 06, 2013
GEORGE WILL: A ruling to bark about
The eyes of Texas were upon the state’s high court when it reaffirmed an 1891 ruling that because pets are personal property, a bereaved owner of a negligently killed dog can seek only economic damages, not emotional damages.
By George F. Will , May 30, 2013
GEORGE WILL: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ coercion arrives on campus
Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most.
By George Will , May 26, 2013
GEORGE WILL: NLRB stands with Wallace in schoolhouse door
Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case.”
By George Will , May 23, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Absolute power is corrupting absolutely
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.
By George Will , May 16, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Conveniently forgetting Watergate’s lesson
The burglary occurred in 1972, the climax came in 1974, but 40 years ago this week — May 17, 1973 — the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring the nature of Richard Nixon’s administration.
By George Will , May 14, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Obama’s reach keeps exceeding his grasp
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision.
By George Will , April 28, 2013
GEORGE WILL: The story of the ‘Central Park Five,’ graphically told
From Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice.
By George Will , April 14, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Does ‘choice’ include infanticide? Yes, some say
We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so. Unless you are a member of Voice for Life, an anti-abortion group.
By George Will , April 07, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Political correctness permeates American education
The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism.
By George Will , April 04, 2013
GEORGE WILL: GOP’s reforms miss real need: Better candidates
The nation reveres the Framers, but long ago abandoned the presidential selection process they considered so important that they made it one of the four national institutions created by the Constitution.
By George Will , March 24, 2013
GEORGE WILL: Social science on gay marriage: Inconclusive
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on March 26 about whether California’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to “equal protection of the laws,” these arguments will invoke the intersection of law and social science.
By George Will , March 17, 2013
GEORGE WILL: The Pop-Tart terrorist
Rodney Francis is insufficiently ambitious. The pastor of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church in St. Louis has entered the fray over guns, violence and humanity’s fallen nature with a plan for a “buyback” of children’s toy guns. And toy swords and other make-believe weapons.
By George Will , March 10, 2013
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