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Born | Kevin Daniel Williamson September 18, 1972
Amarillo, Texas, U.S. |
Alma mater | The University of Texas - 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]
Williamson 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]
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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.
Kevin D. Williamson | |
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![]() Kevin D. Williamson hosting a
FreedomFest panel in 2016 | |
Born | Kevin Daniel Williamson September 18, 1972
Amarillo, Texas, U.S. |
Alma mater | The University of Texas - 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]
Williamson 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]
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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.