Kevin D. Williamson

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.

Kevin D. Williamson

Applying a Counterinsurgency Strategy to the Drug Problem

A Washington state congressional candidate takes lessons from Iraq.

Stop Calling Trump’s New York Caper a ‘No Harm’ Crime

Donald Trump cheated the shareholders of the banks that lent him money out of millions of dollars in interest payments and fees.

Giving Permission to Political Violence

Undermining the legitimacy of institutions—as the left and the right have both done—is just the first step.

One Way to Help a Journalism Industry in Crisis: Make J-School History

There are jobs that require a great deal of education. Being a reporter isn’t one of them.

Everybody Said ‘Never Again’

Two contemporary studies in genocide.

There Is No Labor Shortage

It’s mostly the sectors dominated by low-wage jobs that are struggling.

Slate Publishes Gun-Control Fiction

Bump stocks aren’t machine guns, and good luck trying to fire an AR-style rifle 800 times in a minute.

Do the Wrong Thing

The nihilism of the modern Republican Party.

Biden’s Decline Is a Legitimate News Story

Whether some in the media want it to be or not.

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The Full Duranty

Vladimir Putin’s U.S. admirers are full of it.