George Will: Wrong for So Long

Years ago, when I was an editor at The Austin American-Statesman, I had to decide whether to run George Will, the conservative columnist at The Washington Post, on a regular basis to balance the pages with perspectives from the left and the right.

I had admired Will’s writing but more and more I had to force myself to read him – still do.  My struggle began many years before with a piece that suggested to me that he fundamentally misunderstood where the country was headed.  Will had written at the height of the Reagan Revolution – I’m paraphrasing – that the country had entered a conservative era that would last for generations.

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