American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly
Torrent, 2008-2020
by George F. Will
Examine the ways in which expertise, reason, and
manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political
arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning
conservative columnist.
George F. Will has been one of this country’s leading
columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall
Street Journal once called him “perhaps the most powerful journalist in
America.” In this new collection, he examines a remarkably unsettling thirteen
years in our nation’s experience, from 2008 to 2020. Included are a number of
columns about court cases, mostly from the Supreme Court, that illuminate why
the composition of the federal judiciary has become such a contentious subject.
Other topics addressed include the American
Revolutionary War, historical figures from Frederick Douglass to JFK, as well
as a scathing assessment of how State of the Union Addresses are delivered in
the modern day. Mr. Will also offers his perspective on American socialists,
anti-capitalist conservatives, drug policy, the criminal justice system,
climatology, the Coronavirus, the First Amendment, parenting, meritocracy and
education, China, fascism, authoritarianism, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, The Beach
Boys, and the morality of enjoying football. American Happiness and
Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 is a collection packed with wisdom
and leavened by humor from one the preeminent columnists and intellectuals of
our time.
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