Kevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American conservative political commentator. He is the national correspondent for

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. Previously, he was the roving correspondent for ''

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''.

Career

Williamson has worked as a deputy managing editor and theater critic for ''

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''. Williamson has also worked at the

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-based

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; the ''

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''; 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 ''

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'' but his employment was terminated following public criticism of a 2014

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discussion, in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for

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, as well as his reiteration of this suggestion on his ''

'' 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.

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