Definition: George F. Will = In the weedy field of The American Republic stands the singular effloresce that is Mr. Will. He presents himself as the channeled spirit of Edmund Burke, the great English parliamentarian. Burke was a man and a thinker with a largeness of spirit and humanity, a defender of hereditary power as demonstrative of an inherent benevolence. Although Mr. Will has never demonstrated the breadth and depth of the Burkian political/moral sensibility, he continues to strike politic poses garnished with the apt quotation from his intellectual master, without, in the least, demonstrating any coherent understanding of Burke, the man, the moralist, the politician, except as a handy rhetorical prop to enrich his political nay saying.