These are great days for George Will fans. His classic baseball book, Men at Work, has been reissued. (Will’s friend and colleague Charles Krauthammer mentioned Men at Work in his own baseball column last week.) Will’s speech at CPAC was the best of the conference. His columns are as good as ever; Sunday’s piece, on a Japanese American who fought for his country even as his family lived in internment camps, contained several great passages, such as this:
Such cheerful men, who helped to lop 988 years off the Thousand Year Reich, are serene reproaches to a nation now simmering with grievance groups that nurse their cherished resentments. The culture of complaint gets no nourishment from men like these who served their country so well while it was treating their families so ignobly. Yet it is a high tribute to this country that it is so loved by men such as these.
Best of all, subscribers to a National Review newsletter, “NR Originals,” recently received a classic Will essay in their inboxes. Titled “The Welfare State: Boob Bait for McGovernites,” the piece is more than 35 years old, yet it holds up extremely well. Here’s the lead:
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