Recent Articles by George F. Will
Published: Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:00 am MDT
In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding's Babel Proclamation — that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up — decreed: "Conversation in pub...
Published: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:00 am MDT
After losing to Durbin, Salvi spent four years and $100,000 fighting the FEC, on whose behalf FBI agents visited his elderly mother demanding to know, concerning her $2,000 contribution to her son's campaign, w...
Published: Sunday, June 9, 2013 12:00 am MDT
The steamboat conveying Andrew Jackson up the Ohio River toward his tumultuous 1829 inauguration had brooms lashed to its bow, symbolizing Old Hickory's vow to clean up Washington.
Published: Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:00 am MDT
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, ...
Published: Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Texting while driving is dangerous, especially if you are driving a train. A commuter train engineer was texting on Sept. 12, 2008, near Los Angeles, when he missed a stop signal and crashed into a freight trai...
Published: Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Lord Byron was, according to one of his legion of lovers, "mad, bad and dangerous to know," but he also loved dogs, which explains his cameo appearance in a recent Texas Supreme Court opinion. It answered an in...
Published: Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:00 am MDT
The recent actions of the Office for Civil Rights underscores today's widespread government impulse for lawless coercion; the impulse that produced the Internal Revenue Service's suppression of political speech...
Published: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:00 am MDT
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, ...
Published: Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:00 am MDT
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.
Published: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:00 am MDT
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be ini...



