George Will on Synthetic Hysteria
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
George F. Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, and the author of "American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020." He joins the show to discuss the Culture War, failings of academia, jurisprudence, politics, and economics.
Find Mr. Will's book at mightyheaton.com/featured
Previous George Will interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/03-george-will-saves-america-baseball-the-gop-etc/id1439837349?i=1000445244846
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and today I'm going to speak to an intellectual hero of mine, |
| 0:21.3 | Mr. George F. Will, which always terrifies me slightly. Not because he's mean or anything. |
| 0:28.0 | I've now met him a few times and he's a very kind genial man, but he's so smart, I always feel slightly apologetic asking him questions at all. |
| 0:38.1 | No matter, we're going to have a good, smart discussion ranging from the culture war to history to economics to jurisprudence. |
| 0:45.4 | You're going to get a good episode today. |
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| 0:58.0 | If you think the political orphanage makes America a little smarter, a tad bit kinder, or maybe you're just glad somebody's built up an |
| 1:05.2 | eye of the storm amidst a tempest of partisan hackery and non-stop outrage. |
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| 1:22.0 | slash ANTEN. you consume. So head to Patreon.com. My guest today is Mr. George F. Will. |
| 1:28.0 | He is the official baseball reporter for the political orphanage. |
| 1:31.0 | He's also a long-time columnist at the Washington Post where he has deservedly won a Pulitzer Prize for his insightful and trenchantly elegant writing, much of which has been combined into his latest book, American Happiness and Discontents, The Unruly Torrent 2008 to 2020. |
| 1:46.3 | You can find this book along with all of the other books discussed on the program at mighty |
| 1:49.6 | heaten.com slash featured. |
| 1:51.0 | Hello Mr. Will, good to see you. |
| 1:52.8 | Good to see you. How are you? |
| 1:54.6 | I'm very well. How was your 2020? I sort of, I imagine you going into the library of |
| 2:00.3 | Congress with a bunch of Gatorade and granola Bars and just reading quietly in a quarantine space for a year? |
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