A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A. In 1986 the Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America" in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). dissertation was entitled Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society.

He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics. George Frederick Will (born May 4 1941) is an American newspaper columnist journalist and author. In 1986 the Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America" in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).