I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

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).