Kevin D. Williamson

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 mater	The University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Roving correspondent
Employer	The Dispatch
Political party	Republican (before 2008)[1]
Children	4 (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]

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]

• 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

• Williamson, Kevin D. (May 24, 2014). "The Case against Reparations". National Review.

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• Appearances on C-SPAN