George F. Will

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194 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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When you go down that path,

You wind up either with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or on a typical American campus today.

Liberalism gets the big questions right to keep the peace.

That's the fundamental problem in politics is social peace.

And liberalism gets the big questions right by leaving many big questions out of politics.

Is there a God?

How should we worship?

What is virtue?

How should we promote it?

Should we have false consciousness purged and true consciousness inculcated?

Liberalism doesn't do that.

Liberalism recognizes that the great problem of politics is that human beings are opinionated and egotistical.

They like their opinions, and they have different opinions, yet they have to live together in peace.

Liberalism is often faulted as pedestrian and boring.

I prefer to say it has heroic modesty.

It does not presume to tell people how to find meaning of their lives in politics.

Genuflecting at the altar of politics is illiberal and produces illiberalism.

My partner Jacob is a devout Catholic.

I describe myself as an amiable low voltage atheist.

It doesn't matter.

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