Victor Davis Hanson Contra Kevin Williamson
5th April 2018
In the past, I have often enjoyed Kevin Williamson’s essays. Even when I found them occasionally incoherent and cruel, I thought it hardly my business to object to a colleague’s writing. But I gather, under changed circumstances, such deference no longer applies, given that in Williamson’s very first column at The Atlantic he attacks both me, and in a backhanded way, his former employer National Review for publishing a recent article I wrote.
I am a great fan both of Victor Davis Hanson and of Kevin Williamson, and so I found this article to be of compelling interest. It is in precisely this sort of contention between persons with whom one would ordinarily expect to agree that one’s own views are more precisely refined and delineated.