Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are
continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas,
and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
conservative columnist.
George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since
1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street
Journal once called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in
America." In this new collection, he examines a remarkably unsettling
thirteen years in our nation's experience, from 2008 to 2020. Included
are a number of columns about court cases, mostly from the Supreme
Court, that illuminate why the composition of the federal judiciary has
become such a contentious subject.
Other topics addressed include the American Revolutionary War,
historical figures from Frederick Douglass to JFK, as well as a scathing
assessment of how State of the Union Addresses are delivered in the
modern day. Mr. Will also offers his perspective on American socialists,
anti-capitalist conservatives, drug policy, the criminal justice system,
climatology, the Coronavirus, the First Amendment, parenting,
meritocracy and education, China, fascism, authoritarianism, Frank
Sinatra, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, and the morality of enjoying
football. American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent,
2008-2020 is a collection packed with wisdom and leavened by humor
from one the preeminent columnists and intellectuals of our time.
