George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.
incessant signals
Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.
genius may littles
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
noise culture gregariousness
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
western-culture three consciousness
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.
training technique literacy
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
risk understanding constrain
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding
today citizens classical-music
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
admitting care guests
When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.
creative wonderful life-is
My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.
degradation remember film
The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
loyalty country lying
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
moments breaths
Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
romantic sweet long
You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.