Kevin D. Williamson

For other people with similar names, see Kevin Williamson (disambiguation).

Kevin D. Williamson
Kevin D. Williamson hosting a FreedomFest panel in 2016
Born
Kevin Daniel Williamson

(1972-09-18) September 18, 1972 (age 52)
Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
Alma materThe University of Texas at Austin
OccupationRoving correspondent
EmployerThe Dispatch
Political partyRepublican (before 2008)[1]
Children4 (including triplets)[2]

Kevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American political commentator. He is the national correspondent for The Dispatch.[3] Previously, he was the roving correspondent for National Review.[4]

Life and career

Williamson grew up in Texas and studied English literature and linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked as a deputy managing editor[5] and theater critic for The New Criterion.[6] Williamson has also worked at the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group; the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal; Journal Register Newspapers; the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he directed the journalism and communication programs; and as an adjunct professor at The King's College.[7] Williamson was the editor of The Bulletin, a now-defunct daily newspaper in Philadelphia.[8] Williamson was a longtime columnist at National Review.[9][10] Williamson left National Review in 2022 and is currently employed by The Dispatch as a national correspondent.[3]

In 2018,[11][12] he briefly joined The Atlantic but his employment was terminated following public criticism of a 2014 Twitter discussion,[13] in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for abortion,[14][15][16] as well as his reiteration of this suggestion on his National Review podcast in 2014.[17]

Williamson later wrote that his comments had been intended to "mak[e] a point about the sloppy rhetoric of the abortion debate" rather than to promote capital punishment,[18] noting that he had previously expressed strong reservations about capital punishment in general.[19]

Bibliography

  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. Regnery Publishing. 2011. ISBN 978-1596986497.
  • The Dependency Agenda. Encounter Books. 2012. ISBN 978-1594036637.
  • The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure. Broadside Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0062220684.
  • What Doomed Detroit. Encounter Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1594037467.
  • The Case Against Trump. Encounter Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1594038778.
  • The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics. Gateway Editions. 2019. ISBN 978-1621579687.
  • Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America". Regnery Publishing. 2020. ISBN 978-1621579694.

Contributor

  • Kimball, Roger (2012). The New Leviathan: The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1594036323.
  • Kimball, Roger (2012). Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1594036347.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Williamson, Kevin (June 30, 2020). "The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg #227" (Interview). Interviewed by Jonah Goldberg.
  2. ^ "Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Manatees and Sloths and Triplets and Dachsunds and Furniture". February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Kevin D. Williamson Joins the Dispatch". September 19, 2022.
  4. ^ "(NR articles by) Kevin D. Williamson". National Review Online. National Review. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  5. ^ Williamson, Kevin D. "Exchequer". National Review Online. National Review. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  6. ^ "(The New Criterion articles by) Kevin D. Williamson". The New Criterion. The New Criterion. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  7. ^ "Small-Government Schmoozing: Scenes from a libertarian journalism conference". The Nation. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  8. ^ "Philly's Bulletin Newspaper Is Resurrected". The New York Sun. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  9. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (April 8, 2018). "A Dissent Concerning Kevin Williamson". The Atlantic.
  10. ^ "Sad Goodbyes". National Review. September 19, 2022.
  11. ^ Weissmann, Jordan (March 27, 2018). "The Atlantic's Justifications for Hiring Conservative Troll Kevin Williamson Ring Awfully Hollow". Slate Magazine. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  12. ^ Jones, Sarah (March 28, 2018). "The Conservative Columnist Conundrum". The New Republic. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  13. ^ Linker, Damon (October 3, 2014). "This abortion opponent wants to execute women who have abortions. Don't act so shocked". The Week. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  14. ^ Abcarian, Robin (September 30, 2014). "Here's a guy advocating death by hanging for women who have abortions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  15. ^ Strauss, Daniel (September 29, 2014). "National Review Writer: Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Hanged". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  16. ^ Newell, Jim (September 30, 2014). "National Review writer's vile pro-life argument is logically consistent". Salon. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  17. ^ Kahn, Sharon (April 4, 2018). "Kevin Williamson also said on his podcast that people who've had abortions should be hanged". Media Matters For America. Retrieved June 14, 2018. I do support that, in fact, as I wrote, what I had in mind was hanging" and "I would totally go with treating it like any other crime up to and including hanging...I've got a soft spot for hanging as a form of capital punishment. I tend to think that things like lethal injection are a little too antiseptic...quasi-medical -- yeah, if the state is going to do violence, let's make it violence.
  18. ^ Williamson, Kevin (April 20, 2018). "When the Twitter Mob Came for Me". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 20, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  19. ^ Williamson, Kevin (July 1, 2013). "Abortion After Texas". National Review. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
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