👤 Kevin D. Williamson

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-08-25 – 2026-10-16
Claims per article
8
150 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
1,186
characters
Writes for The Dispatch.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
63%
Economy/Business
11%
Entertainment
11%
Crime & Law
5%
Other
5%
World
5%
Most-tagged topics
AmericaSenateDemocratsDispatchGOPGetty ImagesRepublicanRepublicans

Leaning

-0.11 average ± 0.25 · -0.25 median · 14 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages -0.09. On this many articles the difference between the two is inside the margin. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-11 · The Dispatch · Politics
Twenty-Five Years Later, We Must Rebuild
35 outlets covered this event
2026-10-02 · The Dispatch · Crime & Law
Tennessee Poison
31 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-08-26 · The Dispatch · Politics
Trump’s Trade War With Canada Is Not About Canada
21 outlets covered this event · leans strongly right
2026-10-02 · The Dispatch · Politics
Sen. Schmitt’s Failed Attack on Jack Smith
16 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-08-25 · The Dispatch · Economy/Business
How The U.S. Racked Up Its $40 Trillion Debt
5 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-10-16 · The Dispatch · Politics
What James Talarico Believes
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

What they said would happen

2026-08-25 · The Dispatch
How The U.S. Racked Up Its $40 Trillion Debt
🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the U.S. crossing the $40 trillion debt threshold and the prospect of “growing our way out of it.” assertive
2026-08-26 · The Dispatch
Trump’s Trade War With Canada Is Not About Canada
🔮 The leaders in Iran will agree to nothing. mixed
2026-08-28 · The Dispatch
The New Security Math in Reykjavík
🔮 The small island nation of Iceland—population about that of Wichita, Kansas—will vote on Saturday on the question of whether to reinstate talks, suspended more than a decade ago, about joining the European Union. assertive
2026-09-07 · The Dispatch
Calling a War a War
🔮 You’re reading Wanderland, Kevin D. Williamson’s weekly newsletter on America’s rapidly changing political, economic, and social norms. assertive
2026-09-08 · The Dispatch
After Trump
🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Michael Reneau to discuss our latest editorial on a post-Trump reality, comments by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin as the U.S. pursues negotiations for an end to the Ukraine war, and finally, a Labor Day edition of Not Worth Your Time. assertive
2026-09-11 · The Dispatch
Twenty-Five Years Later, We Must Rebuild
🔮 She would call to tell me about the weather where I lived, nearly 2,000 miles from her, and I would patiently (I hope) remind her that I was both the editor of the local newspaper and a man with windows and, as such, generally au courant on the weather. assertive
2026-09-14 · The Dispatch
Influencers Are Schmucks
🔮 You’re reading Wanderland, Kevin D. Williamson’s weekly newsletter on America’s rapidly changing political, economic, and social norms. assertive
2026-09-18 · The Dispatch
Why GOP Candidates Are Ignoring Trump
🔮 Mike Warren is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Kevin Williamson to discuss why GOP midterm candidates aren’t heeding President Donald Trump’s electoral advice, as well as Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French’s racist tweet about a University of Texas football game. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Dispatch
What ‘Never’ Means
🔮 You’re reading Wanderland, Kevin D. Williamson’s weekly newsletter on America’s rapidly changing political, economic, and social norms. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Dispatch
Can Democrats Flip a Kansas Senate Seat?
🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the possibility of Democrats flipping a seat in Kansas and the Trump administration’s “public service announcements.” assertive
2026-10-02 · The Dispatch
Tennessee Poison
🔮 The story of Christa Pike, whom Tennessee officials have—so far—twice tried to poison to death, would be the blackest of black comedy if there were any comedy in it. assertive
2026-10-02 · The Dispatch
Sen. Schmitt’s Failed Attack on Jack Smith
🔮 Mike Warren is joined by Jonah Goldberg and Kevin Williamson to discuss Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt’s failed attempt at setting a perjury trap and the Trump administration’s AI luncheon. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Dispatch
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
🔮 You’re reading Wanderland, Kevin D. Williamson’s weekly newsletter on America’s rapidly changing political, economic, and social norms. assertive
2026-10-07 · The Dispatch
The Return of the Tudors
🔮 The famous Hans Holbein portrait of King Henry VIII holding a turkey drumstick is so universally known and instantaneously comprehended that you see it humorously referenced everywhere from State Farm commercials to heavy metal videos—so famous that you would almost think that it exists, which it doesn’t. assertive
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