George F. Will

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | George F. Will

The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding (washingtonpost.com) The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding By George F. Will 2025041611003400 This Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a celebration that will culminate July 4, 2026.

1 week ago | commercial-news.com | George F. Will

The glossary of odd phrases employed to describe, and sometimes to obscure, economic policy has recently included “quantitative easing.” This Federal Reserve fog means increasing the money supply. Today, “dynamic scoring” and “current-policy baseline,” when deciphered, reveal the tangle of budgetary complexities and political temptations swirling around 2025’s momentous domestic debate about the fate of the first Trump administration’s signature achievement, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

1 week ago | montrosepress.com | George F. Will

Having spent nearly 12 weeks raising taxes, the cost of living and doubts about his mastery of macroeconomics, the president, undeterred by unenthralled stock and bond markets, vowed, as Ronald Reagan did 43 years ago, to “stay the course.” There are, however, differences. Reagan urged accepting short-term pain — 20 percent interest rates to suppress inflation that had approached 14 percent — for the long-term gain of robust growth.

1 week ago | estadao.com.br | George F. Will

Muitos anos atrás, depois que a reconstrução da West Side Highway de Manhattan levou 35 anos, Daniel Patrick Moynihan observou que a construção da Ponte George Washington, mais desafiadora, levou apenas 39 meses. Moynihan, senador democrata de Nova York por quatro mandatos, lamentou que, enquanto os americanos antes celebravam pessoas que construíam coisas, “na década de 1970, a reputação cívica começou a ser adquirida por pessoas que impediam as coisas de acontecerem”.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | George F. Will

This is 10-thumbed, fumbling, overconfident governmental progressivism (washingtonpost.com) This is 10-thumbed, fumbling, overconfident governmental progressivism By George F.