Politics is dangerous.

There's no safe harbor.

Police could become Gestapo's.

Taxation could become confiscation.

But we need police and we need taxation.

There is no safety in politics.

Life is lived on a slippery slope.

Get over.

Hey, hey, and welcome.

This is the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday special.

I am overjoyed to welcome to the set, George Will, who requires no introduction.

His brand new book is The Conservative Sensibility.

Mr. Will, thanks so much for stopping by.

Glad to be with you.

So how did you become George Will?

So everybody knows your name, obviously. You're probably the most prominent conservative thinker of the last 30 to 40 years.

So how did you become George Will? How did you get to where you are?

I grew up in central Illinois, the son of a college professor at the University of Illinois.

I went to Trinity College as an undergraduate. Went to Oxford. When I left Oxford, I applied to a distinguished law school and to Princeton in philosophy.

I couldn't decide whether to be a lawyer or a professor of political philosophy.

I went to Princeton because it was midway between two National League cities, baseball

being the center of my life at all times, taught for a few years, Everett Dirkson died, a Republican senator who led the Republicans.

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