Will: The puzzling problem of vaping
A 29-story office building at 123 Mission St. in San Francisco illustrates the policy puzzles that fester because of these facts: For centuries, tobacco has been a widely used legal consumer good that...
View ArticleWill: Answer these, candidates
The Democratic presidential circus pitches its tent in Detroit this week. It will be especially entertaining if the presidential aspirants are asked some questions like these: For Sens. Elizabeth...
View ArticleWill: For the Democrats, it’s winnowing time
Winnow: verb. To expose (grain or other substances) to the wind or to a current of air so that the lighter particles (as chaff or other refuse matter) are separated or blown away. — Oxford English...
View ArticleGeorge Will: Trump doesn’t just pollute the social environment. He is the...
“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” —...
View ArticleWill: “National conservatism” is “Elizabeth Warren conservatism”
Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes’ behavior. America’s current administration has “national conservatives.” They...
View ArticleWill: Amash’s independence shows voters they don’t have to settle for binary...
It is difficult to discourage and impossible to manage Justin Amash because he, unusual among politicians, does not want much and wants nothing inordinately. He would like to win a sixth term as...
View ArticleWill: Trade war shows reality of “America First” in action
In a trade war, as in a real one, people are wounded by friendly fire from their side. Consider some casualties in Donald Trump’s “easy to win” — his promise — trade war. Begin with the company whose...
View ArticleWill: Hong Kong is a “hair’s breadth from destruction”
Physically diminutive, intellectually acerbic and with an eye for the ironic, Margaret Ng — lawyer, writer and former legislator — is, at 71, a member of the generation for which Hong Kong’s youthful...
View ArticleWill: Hong Kong’s resistance offers lessons for Taiwan
What happens on Hong Kong Island does not stay there. The ongoing tsunami of discontent washes over this island, which, like Hong Kong, is navigating the choppy waters of relations with the same large...
View ArticleWill: “Texodus” bodes badly for Republicans
“I am a classically trained engineer,” says Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, “and I firmly believe in regression to the mean.” Applying a concept from statistics to the randomness of today’s...
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