The field of economics gives us pretty good answers to exactly one category of questions: economic questions.
Aesthetic questions? Moral questions? Big-picture questions that provoke ultimate existential angst and cause one to wake up at 3:42 a.m. asking, “What’s the meaning of it all?”
Not so much.
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.
