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Education and early careerWill was born in Champaign, Illinois, the son of Frederick L. Will and Louise Will.[1] Fred was a respected professor of philosophy, specializing in epistemology, at the University of Illinois.
Will then taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard University in 1995 and again in 1998. From 1970 to 1972, he served on the staff of Senator Gordon Allott (R-CO). Will has three children with his first wife, Madeleine. One of these children, Jon, was born with Down syndrome, which Will has written about in his column on occasion.[2] Will married Mari Maseng in 1991. They have one child, a son, David. Career in journalismWill served as an editor for the conservative magazine National Review from 1973 to 1976. He joined the Washington Post Writers Group in 1974, writing a syndicated twice-weekly column, which became widely circulated among newspapers across the country. In 1976, he became a contributing editor for Newsweek, writing a biweekly backpage column. As of 2007, Will still writes both columns.
Will won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "distinguished commentary on a variety of topics" in 1977. Often combining factual reporting with conservative commentary, Will's columns are known for their erudite vocabulary, allusions to political philosophers, and frequent references to baseball. Will has also written two best selling books on the game of baseball, three books on political philosophy, and has published eleven compilations of his columns for the Washington Post and Newsweek and of various book reviews and lectures. Will has also appeared as a news analyst for ABC since the early 1980s, and was a founding member on the panel of ABC's This Week with David Brinkley in 1981 (now titled This Week with George Stephanopolous). Will was also a regular panelist on television's Agronsky & Company from 1977–1984. George F. Will has become the rare journalist-pundit well-known enough to have entered American popular culture. In Season 6 of the famous sitcom Seinfeld, Kramer comments on Will's handsome appearance. While Elaine says "he's smart," Kramer comments that he has never considered him to be "that bright." In the early 1990s, George Will's personality and wit were the subject of humor in a sketch on Saturday Night Live. The sketch was based on his book about baseball, Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball, and consisted of a trivia game with famous baseball players trying to answer questions in an exaggerated, faux-erudite version of Will's elegant but somewhat pompous writing style. George's character in the skit was played by Dana Carvey. Will was spoofed in the 1992 episode of The Simpsons, "A Streetcar Named Marge." A Will-looking character, introduced as syndicated columnist William F. George, was a judge at the Miss American Girl pageant. George Will enjoys the distinction of being mentioned in the song Jesse and Phil by the Austin Lounge Lizards. George Will is a global warming skeptic. George and Mari Will live in Georgetown. Rumor says that Mr. Will may be interested in buying the Chicago Cubs; which the Tribune Co. is selling. Criticism of the Bush administrationGeorge Will served as one of the opponents within the Beltway media of the nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court. Will has also recently expressed reservations about the policies the Bush administration has chosen to pursue with respect to Iraq, and has become openly critical of what he perceives to be an unrealistically optimistic set of political scenarios outlined by the White House. In March 2006, in a column penned in the aftermath of the apparently sectarian bombing of the Askariya Shrine, Will challenged the Bush administration—and the representatives of the U.S. government stationed in Iraq—to be more honest about the difficulties the United States faced in rebuilding and maintaining order within Iraq, comparing the White House's rhetoric unfavorably to that of Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II. The optimistic assessments delivered by the Bush administration were described by Will as the "rhetoric of unreality."[3] Will repeated this criticism of the Bush Iraq policy and broader White House and congressional foreign and domestic policymaking, as part of his keynote address for the Cato Institute's 2006 Milton Friedman Prize dinner.[4] CriticismThe media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting criticised an incident in which newspaper magnate Conrad Black paid George Will $25,000 for a single day of consulting, after which Will wrote favourably about Black without disclosing the payment. [5] AwardsIn addition to more than 15 honorary degrees:
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