George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977. His latest ...

It is incongruous that Donald Trump, who advertises his disdain for things European, wants to give us something that no one in his or her right mind wants: a knockoff of France’s Arc de Triomphe.

WAR is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional values and procedures pertinent to it is problematic. This has been made more so ...

“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” — Lewis Thomas The pedigree of human ...

The shrinking of America’s population -- perhaps probable, certainly regrettable -- is not inevitable. It is preventable, but requires an attitude adjustment among Americans who do not understand that ...

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it." ...

No, you’re not. The waving wheat might sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain, but there is an unpleasantly pungent aroma surrounding the rent-seeking you allow. Would that ...

SERVING AS A SURROGATE BOB DOLE DURING BILL Clinton’s debate rehearsals, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was sufficiently ferocious to make Clinton anxious. ON TUESDAY THE INSCRUTABLE ...

Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications. Or has lost its... Will: ...

When Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), the astrophysicist, was asked how many people understood his theory of the expanding universe, he paused, then said, “Perhaps seven.” That may be more ...