ULC Authors Group and “[email protected]” … Welcomes Author George Will

Please join the Union League Club Authors Group and [email protected] as they welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning Syndicated Columnist, Television Commentator, and Author George F. Will for dinner, cocktails and conversation about his new book “The Conservative Sensibility.”

The Author . . . George F. Will

Over a storied five-decade career in American journalism, George Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to our civic life. A Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, television commentator, and author of more than a dozen books, Will has been called “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America” by the Wall Street Journal. Now, at the age of 77 (and during a presidency unlike any in his lifetime), Will has written his most expansive, most passionate, and most vital book.

The Book . . . The Conservative Sensibility

The Conservative Sensibility takes readers back to the Founders’ vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, which gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. But in the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It’s time to reverse America’s political fortunes.

In Conversation with . . . Christopher Robling

Mr. Robling assists clients in their media relations, including speaker and media training, by drawing on decades of personal experience in the media. He anchored All-News WMAQ-AM’s (Infinity) coverage of the Columbine shootings and has interviewed numerous public officials, authors and newsmakers, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senators, Representatives, and Governors.

Since 2004, Mr. Robling has been the Republican analyst on the market-leading WGN-TV (IND) Morning News, also manning the anchor desk for election night coverage in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and inaugurations of 2013 and 2017. He appeared on WGN-TV from the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Mr. Robling has appeared on Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera English, BBC TV and radio, Canada’s CTV, CLTV, CNN, Fox News Channel, South Africa’s E-TV, numerous national radio programs, and all Chicago-area television stations as a news source, panelist or commentator.

The Event

The evening begins at 6:00 with registration/reception and Hors D’oevures will be served. Conversation with George Will begins at 6:30 p.m.

The cost is $45 per person and includes tax, gratuity, conversation and Hors D’oeuvres. Cocktails will be available for purchase. Books will also be available for purchase from the Book Stall. If you have questions please call 1-800-443-0578.

The Union League Club has a Business Casual dress code. No denim or athletic wear is permitted.