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

(1972-09-18) September 18, 1972 (age 51)
Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
Alma materThe University of Texas - Austin
OccupationRoving correspondent
EmployerThe Dispatch
Political partyRepublican (before 2008)[1]

Kevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American political commentator. He is the national correspondent for The Dispatch. [2] Previously, he was the roving correspondent for National Review.[3]

Career

Williamson has worked as a deputy managing editor[4] and theater critic for The New Criterion.[5] 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.[6] Williamson was the editor of The Bulletin, a now-defunct daily newspaper in Philadelphia.[7] Williamson was a longtime columnist at National Review.[8][9] Williamson left National Review in 2022 and is currently employed by The Dispatch as a national correspondent.[2]

In 2018,[10][11] he briefly joined The Atlantic but his employment was terminated following public criticism of a 2014 Twitter discussion,[12] in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for abortion,[13][14][15] as well as his reiteration of this suggestion on his National Review podcast in 2014.[16]

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,[17] noting that he had previously expressed strong reservations about capital punishment in general.[18]

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References

  1. ^ Williamson, Kevin (June 30, 2020). "The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg #227" (Interview). Interviewed by Jonah Goldberg.
  2. ^ a b "Kevin D. Williamson Joins the Dispatch". September 19, 2022.
  3. ^ "(NR articles by) Kevin D. Williamson". National Review Online. National Review. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  4. ^ Williamson, Kevin D. "Exchequer". National Review Online. National Review. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  5. ^ "(The New Criterion articles by) Kevin D. Williamson". The New Criterion. The New Criterion. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "Small-Government Schmoozing: Scenes from a libertarian journalism conference". The Nation. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  7. ^ "Philly's Bulletin Newspaper Is Resurrected". The New York Sun. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  8. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (April 8, 2018). "A Dissent Concerning Kevin Williamson". The Atlantic.
  9. ^ "Sad Goodbyes". National Review. September 19, 2022.
  10. ^ Weissmann, Jordan (March 27, 2018). "The Atlantic's Justifications for Hiring Conservative Troll Kevin Williamson Ring Awfully Hollow". Slate Magazine. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  11. ^ Jones, Sarah (March 28, 2018). "The Conservative Columnist Conundrum". The New Republic. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Strauss, Daniel (September 29, 2014). "National Review Writer: Women Who Have Abortions Should Be Hanged". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  15. ^ Newell, Jim (September 30, 2014). "National Review writer's vile pro-life argument is logically consistent". Salon. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Williamson, Kevin (July 1, 2013). "Abortion After Texas". National Review. Retrieved December 3, 2018.

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