“Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.”

American conservative writer and political commentator

George Frederick Will is an American conservative writer and political commentator. He is known for his long-running columns in The Washington Post and for his commentary on NewsNation. Will has built a public career around political writing and analysis. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977, and in 1986 The Wall Street Journal described him as “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America.”