I really like George Will, in part because I find his writing challenging. Sometimes that means I finish a column not really understanding his position, and have to go back and read it again, but I can live with that.

Still, beginners beware: Will can get away with sentences like this:

America's always fast-flowing river of race-obsessing has overflowed its banks, and last Sunday on ``This Week'' Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois' freshman Democrat, applied to the expression of old banalities a fluency that would be beguiling were it without content.

...but the rest of us can't.