The Latest Breaking News from George Will

From everyday trends to pop culture crazes, these stories show that everyone’s “boring” button is a little different—and some of the answers might surprise you.

It's a return to the Reagan era, but not in the way that should make conservatives happy.

Elton John, Adele and R.E.M. did it. So did Rihanna and the Rolling Stones. If Donald Trump tried to use her music, Taylor Swift would likely do it, too.

Some thought Major League Baseball games with pitch clocks might feel forced, rushed, even gimmicky. But the new rules have proven to be a rousing success

A year ago, when the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. proclaimed the death of abortion rights to be a victory for American democracy, one that might de-escalate political conflict. A month ahead of the Dobbs anniversary, Washington Post columnist George Will…

There are too many other diversions for baseball to reclaim the hold it once had over the public imagination, Gene Lyons writes. But Major League Baseball’s rules changes are a huge success.

With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism

FORT WORTH, Texas — The purists who loathe the MLB’s changes to baseball need to turn down George Will, or nearly all ex-players, and listen to a kid.

Forgive me for bit of own-horn tooting, but it's not every day that someone as prominent and respected as George Will calls a relative obscure academic's work "potentially 2022's most consequential American book." In other news about Classified, I was a guest on Michael Shermer's podcast. Shermer, as readers may…