George F. Will
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George Will attending the Washington Nationals at Baltimore Orioles May 21, 2011
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George Frederick Will May 4, 1941 Champaign, Illinois, U.S |
| Residence | Washington, D.C. |
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| Occupation | Columnist, journalist, author |
| Employer | Newsweek, The Washington Post |
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| Children | Victoria, Geoffrey, and Jonathan (first marriage); David (second marriage) |
| Parent(s) | Frederick L. Will and Louise Hendrickson Will |
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning conservative political commentator. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America", in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).
Will was born in Champaign, Illinois, the son of Frederick L. Will and Louise Hendrickson Will. His father was a professor of philosophy, specializing in epistemology, at the University of Illinois.
Will graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (BA, Religion, 1962). He subsequently studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, (BA, MA). Upon leaving Oxford, Will gave up plans to attend Harvard Law School and continued his studies at Princeton University from which he received MA and PhD degrees in politics. His 1968 PhD dissertation was entitled Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society.
From 1970 to 1972, he served on the staff of Republican Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. Will then taught political philosophy at the James Madison College of Michigan State University, and at the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard University in 1995 and again in 1998.
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