George F. Will

Washington, D.C.

Columnist covering politics and domestic and foreign affairs

Education: Trinity College ; Oxford University; Princeton University

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC and NBC News. His latest book, "American Happiness and Discontents," was released in September 2021. His other works include: "The Conservative Sensibility" (2019), “One Man’s America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation” (2008), “Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy” (1992), “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseba
Latest from George F. Will

The county seized her condo, sold it and kept all the money. Not nice.

An elderly Minnesota woman's lawsuit over "home equity theft" will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

April 24, 2023

Fox News behaved egregiously, but the settlement was good for the law

The Dominion Voting Systems case would not have been an ideal occasion for rethinking the legal definition of defamation.

April 20, 2023

As enrollment plummets, academia gets schooled about where it went wrong

Politicized, hysterical and administratively bloated academia is discovering that offering credentials of dubious value is an enticement easily resisted.

April 19, 2023

A classless, socially fluid America? Not today, not in politics.

Post-secondary education has become a marker of status and a source of the snobbery that fuels the resentments of non-college Americans.

April 14, 2023

How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo

Contempt for the other tribe, rather than affection for one's own, is now many Americans' animating passion.

April 12, 2023

How the grim Waco siege anniversary echoes with Trump

Now we have Trump recently telling a Waco rally that the 2024 election will be the “final battle.” Some people — how many is unclear — really believe this.

April 7, 2023

Maybe, just maybe, this is rock bottom for embarrassing U.S. politics

A second Trump term is becoming increasingly improbable. That removes Biden's main rationale for a 2024 run. Bring on fresh candidates, from both parties.

April 4, 2023

Chicago voters must choose further decline or a remedy for an ailing city

In Chicago, the mayoral election on Tuesday offers voters two starkly different candidates. Only one is a potential remedy for an ailing city.

March 31, 2023

George Will’s 2023 Opening Day quiz

Swing for the fences with these 35 questions to celebrate the start of a new baseball season.

March 28, 2023

Another revered high school sacrifices excellence on the altar of DEI

Philadelphia's Masterman School, once lauded by Barack Obama, is being "systematically dismantled," according to a report by a multiracial group of parents.

March 24, 2023