Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.
Our sacralizing tendency assimilates every issue into a spiritualized conflict of visions that is ultimately not about policy but about identity.
Crimes that corrupt our institutions don’t just hurt the people who are directly involved.
Just printing more money won’t solve our problems.
Some Republican voters see abortion as a political problem. But what if the political problem is Republicans?
That we’re having a conversation about presidential immunity from criminal acts is insane.
Let us not forget who is to blame for the current violence in Gaza.