Kevin D. Williamson


Kevin Daniel Williamson is an American conservative political commentator. He is the national correspondent for The Dispatch. Previously, he was the roving correspondent for National Review.
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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 and theater critic for The New Criterion. 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. Williamson was the editor of The Bulletin, a now-defunct daily newspaper in Philadelphia. Williamson was a longtime columnist at National Review. Williamson left National Review in 2022 and is currently employed by The Dispatch as a national correspondent.
In 2018, he briefly joined The Atlantic but his employment was terminated following public criticism of a 2014 Twitter discussion, in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for abortion, as well as his reiteration of this suggestion on his National Review podcast in 2014.
Williamson later wrote that his comments had been intended to "mak a point about the sloppy rhetoric of the abortion debate" rather than to promote capital punishment, noting that he had previously expressed strong reservations about capital punishment in general.