George Will

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George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American conservative political commentator.

He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC.

In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps America's most influential journalist," a tribute to Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).

In 1977, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Personal life

Will has three children, namely Victor, Geoffrey, and Jonathan, with his first wife, Madeleine; Jonathan, their oldest child, was born in 1972 with Down syndrome, which Will has discussed in his column on occasion. After 22 years of marriage, he and Madeleine divorced in 1989.

Will married Mari Maseng in 1991. They have one son, David, who was born in 1992, and they live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, an expensive suburb of Washington, D.C., where they most recently worked on Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign. She appeared in Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign and volunteered for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign. She served as a presidential speechwriter, deputy director of transportation, and Assistant to the President for Public Liaison for Ronald Reagan. She was also a former legislative communications chief for Senator Bob Dole.

Will is a self-identified "amiable, low-voltage atheist."

Will, a Chicago Cubs fan, has written extensively about baseball, including his best-selling book Men at Work: The Art of Baseball. He was one of the interview subjects for Ken Burns' PBS documentary film Baseball.

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Education and early career

Will was born in Champaign, Illinois, on May 4, 1941, to Louise (née Hendrickson) and Frederick L. Will. His father, a professor of philosophy with a specialization in epistemology, was a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Will attended University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois, where he graduated in 1959.

Will went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion. He then travelled to Oxford and completed a bachelor's degree at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he participated in Oxford's philosophy, politics, and economics department and earned a bachelor's degree (promoted to a master's per tradition). Will continue with doctoral studies in political science at Princeton University, earning a PhD in 1968 with a thesis titled "Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society," alluding to a key phrase from Justice Robert H. Jackson's majority opinion in the historic 1943 Supreme Court case West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette.

He served on the staff of Republican Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado from 1970 to 1972. Will then teach political philosophy at the James Madison College of Michigan State University and the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard University in 1995 and then again in 1998.

Journalism career

Will initially had left wing political convictions, but his views changed toward conservatism during his Oxford studies, particularly after visiting Communist-controlled East Berlin in the mid-1960s. Will served as an editor for National Review from 1972 to 1978. He joined The Washington Post Writers Group in 1974 and began a syndicated biweekly column that became widely distributed in newspapers around the country and continues to do so today. His column is syndicated to over 450 newspapers as of December 2014. He started contributing editor for Newsweek in 1976 and then moved to a biweekly backpage column until 2011.

In 1977, Will earn a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "distinguish research on a variety of topics." Will's columns are often combining factual reporting with conservative analysis, allusions to political philosophers, and frequent references to baseball.

Will has written two best-selling books on baseball, three books on political theory, and has released eleven compilations of his columns for The Washington Post and Newsweek, as well as other book reviews and lectures.

Will was a Fox News reporter from 2013 to 2017. Will was a news analyst for ABC News before joining Fox News in the 1980s and was a founding member of ABC's This Week with David Brinkley in 1981. Before his departure from ABC News, Will was a panelist on This Week. Will was also a regular panelist on television's Agronsky & Company from 1977 to 1984. Will returned as a panelist on Sunday, March 19, 2017, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd said he had been absent from the program since 1981 and that his return would mark his 52nd appearance.

Will was announced on May 8, 2017 as an MSNBC and NBC News political analyst, in which he is expected to provide regular political commentary on shows such as Today, Morning Joe, and The 11th Hour.

Will be recognized by the National Society for Newspaper Columnists in 2020 as part of the Society of Professional Journalists on December 3, 2020.

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