Conservative political columnist, author, TV political commentator and presidential debate coach George F. Will is one of the mot widely read and widely recognized writers in the world. Will’s political column is syndicated in more than 450 newspapers, he writes a biweekly column for Newsweek, he has authored over a dozen books, and he appears regularly as a political commentator on ABC News and as a guest member on ABC’s This Week. Will has also coached Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr. before their appearances in major campaign debates.
Will was born in Champagne, Illinois and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Princeton University (George 2004, 1). Before he began his writing and journalism career, Will worked as a political philosophy professor at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto. He also served on the staff of U.S. Senator Gordon Allott. Before becoming a columnist with Newsweek, Will served as editor of the National Review. While taking both democrats and republicans and liberals and conservatives to task in a majority of his writings, Will’s views are informative about the problems and challenges with American government, political leadership, democracy and a host of problems facing the American citizenry. This presentation will examine some of the concepts and themes presented by Will’s on these issues, as expressed in a variety of his books and political columns. A conclusion will address one of Will’s main themes pervasive in his writings about what lies at the heart of ineffectualism in American politics, government and society.
The books authored by Will’s are largely collections of his political columns that catalogue the problems of American government, politics and society. Quite often in these columns we see his assertion that American legislators are more interested in careerism and self-gain than finding effective resolutions to the problems plaguing...