The Conservative Sensibility

I've been reading George Will's The Conservative Sensibility. It's a tome, and as I move through his argument (about a third of the way through at the moment) I more and more sense that this is an important book and perhaps even a great one.

That's what this review at Claremont Review of Books argues.

It is not so much that Will offers a sweeping revision of Madison as that he perceives more fully the virtues of the founders’ thought. Now, he says, “properly understood, conservatism is the Madisonian persuasion,” and “the fundamental political axis of our time is an argument between Madisonians and Wilsonians.” 

I think I can already highly recommend this book, even though I have a long way to go in it still.

Oh, and by the way, George Will is 80? He's seems timeless, like Willie Nelson or Betty White! Anyway, I digress.