When we talk about regulation, we tend to talk about whether an industry is heavily regulated or lightly regulated, and our progressive friends have a tendency to claim that an industry has been “deregulated” even when the number and pages of regulations on the books is greater after the “deregulation” than it was before.
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.
