Kevin D. Williamson

American journalist (born 1972)

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 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]

## Life and career

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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

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* 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.

## References

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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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