If you will forgive a ponderous opening question, I have one:
What is justice?
I promise that I won’t get too solemn on you here on a Monday morning.
One of the sharp bright dividing lines between populists—right and left—and conservatives and traditional liberals is that very question.
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.
