Stop Calling It 'Treason'
July 17, 2018 · Web Only, Politics, Donald Trump
What Trump actually did is bad enough.
Conservative Writer and Commentator
Kevin D. Williamson
8 articles 2018
Kevin D. Williamson is a conservative political commentator and author known for his sharp, often provocative prose on politics, culture, and public policy. He has held positions at National Review and was briefly hired by The Atlantic in 2018. He contributed a series of essays to The Weekly Standard in 2018 covering topics ranging from the Kavanaugh confirmation to free speech, media criticism, and cultural commentary.
'I Won'—Kavanaugh, Liberal Panic, and the Supreme Court
July 10, 2018 · Web Only, Politics, Supreme Court
Asked by Shannon Bream about the upcoming fight over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska delivered, as is his habit, a brief seminar on civics: “A judge’s job is not to be making social policy for America,” he said. “A judge’s job is to defend the…
What Happens When the Trans Movement Meets Sports?
June 25, 2018 · Web Only, culture, Politics
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face and suffer a concussion, a broken orbital bone, and injuries requiring seven staples in the head—before the end of the first round.
Watch What You Say. Someone Else Is.
June 14, 2018 · Social Justice, Harvey Weinstein, MeToo
How the social justice mob decides who goes down, and who doesn't.
Beef Supremacy in Portland
June 1, 2018 · Gay Rights, culture, Politics
The world is full of stupid and angry people, and most of them live in Portland.
Remember Who Works for Whom, Chief Acevedo
May 21, 2018 · Politics, gun control, Houston
Houston's police chief should stick to policing crime in his city rather than the political views of the people for whom he works.
The Scientistic Delusion
May 3, 2018 · Science, culture, Politics
The vehement sneering of Ezra Klein, and how it echoes Freudianism.
How They Do 'Journalism' atNew YorkMagazine
April 24, 2018 · media, Politics
In my recent Wall Street Journal essay on the politics of Twitter mobs, I noted that the episode was accompanied by a great deal of sloppy journalism—remarkably lazy journalism. Of all the mostly denunciatory articles about me that appeared in the big-name press (at least four in the New York Times…