[Governor Dinwiddie]

In a nutshell: George Will is an avowed atheist, and has quietly been pushing that agenda all his writing career. He was reared by secular "humanists", the son of a "philosophy" teacher.

I had my fill of Will after his book "Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions" came out in the 80s. It wasn't the book per se. It was that shortly after the book came out that it was revealed he was banging some bimbo on the side.

He divorced his wife, dumping her, leaving her with three kids to raise including one with Down's syndrome.

Call me old fashioned but I find it rather unsavory to be pushing a book on the virtues of virtue, while engaging in a personal life that was quite the opposite.

 

[miss marmelstein]

Interesting about Will’s private life. I always wondered why he stopped writing about his son - the one with Down Syndrome. Now I know!

[bkopto]

Thanks for that information on Will. Context is everything.

I used to read Will regularly years ago but I cannot recall when the last time I read one of his essays.

Now I put him in the General Petraeus category.