Topic: george f. will

When Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” was he threatening to cross the nuclear weapons threshold?

The socialization of children, which prepares them to enter the wider world, has been shifted from parents to primary and secondary schools, and now to higher education...

According to one study, 88 percent of manufacturing job losses are the result of improved productivity, not rapacious Chinese.

When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts’ Constitution a commitment to a “government of laws and not of men,” he probably assumed that the rule of law meant the rule of laws, no matter how many laws there might be. He could not have imagined the modern proliferation and complexity of laws, or how subversive this is of the rule of law.

The war’s legacy lives in Americans’ diminished trust in government. Since 1968, trust has not risen to pre-Vietnam levels.

Only the United States has the capacity to be, as retired Adm. Gary Roughead and Kori Schake say in a Brookings Institution study, “guarantors of the global commons — the seaways and airways, and now the cyber conduits.”

George F. Will WASHINGTON – Cynics are said to be people who are prematurely disappointed about the future. Such dyspepsia is encouraged by watching Republicans...

George F. Will WASHINGTON – Were it not for the provision that Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, put into the Senate’s proposed health care reform,...

Of the several causes of economic descent, there and elsewhere, into the intergenerational transmission of poverty, one was paramount: family disintegration.

North Korea, which has been run opaquely for the Kim family’s benefit since 1953, is approaching a red line.

As a congressman allied with Grover Cleveland once said to a fellow legislator who considered one of his initiatives unconstitutional, “What’s the Constitution between friends?”

California school districts are forced to adopt what is called the “dance of the lemons,” whereby grossly ineffective teachers are shuffled from school to school.

Coleman documented how schools are reflections of, rather than cures for, the failure of families to function as the primary transmitters of social capital.

Thomas Hardy’s description of the 1813 Battle of Leipzig – “a miles-wide pant of pain” – fit the battle of the Somme, where a soldier wrote, “From No Man’s Land ... comes one great groan.”