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Perhaps you’ve heard this famous anecdote about Adlai Stevenson, the liberal intellectual who had the bad political luck to be the Democrats’ nominee to take on Dwight Eisenhower in both 1952 and 1956: An admirer assured him, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you,” and Stevenson, who wasn’t a fool, quipped, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.”
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.
