For some time now, the Newsweek columnist George Will has been praised as a civilized conservative. He tries to reason, he doesn’t often rant, he looks good by comparison to William Buckley (a modest enough test). But he remains a conservative ideologue, and what that entails can be seen in a column he wrote early in April attacking the movie The China Syndrome. The tenor of his attack is suggested by its subtitle: “There is more cancer risk in sitting next to a smoker than next to a nuclear power plant.” With contempt dripping for the no-nukers, the simplifiers who are “anti-technology,” Will came out happily, aggressively for t...