How George Will Changed America’s Mind

When he graced a packed-house university audience with an hour’s enlightenment a few years ago, George Will described his modus operandi thus: “To be open to the stimuli of this endlessly stimulating country, and to understand that there’s a lot more going on in the world than the Iowa caucuses.” For a half century, our country has offered no greater stimulus to our own inquisitiveness than George Will himself.

2024 marks Washington Post readers’ 50th anniversary as the first-crack beneficiaries of his singular wisdom and wit. Some of us, remembering where he got his journalistic training, consider him National Review’s missionary to the heathens. This is also the 50th year in which many of us wonder who out there can rival his contributions to our national understanding, or who might succeed him at the pinnacle of his craft.

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Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels is a senior adviser to the Liberty Fund, president emeritus of Purdue University, and a former governor of Indiana.

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When he graced a packed-house university audience with an hour’s enlightenment a few years ago, George Will described his modus operandi thus: “To be open to the stimuli of this endlessly stimulating country, and to understand that there’s a lot more going on in the world than the Iowa caucuses.” For a half century, our country has offered no greater stimulus to our own inquisitiveness than George Will himself.

2024 marks Washington Post readers’ 50th anniversary as the first-crack beneficiaries of his singular wisdom and wit. Some of us, remembering where he got his journalistic training, consider him National Review’s missionary to the heathens. This is also the 50th year in which many of us wonder who out there can rival his contributions to our national understanding, or who might succeed him at the pinnacle of his craft.