Kevin Daniel Williamson (born September 18, 1972) is an American right-wing political commentator.

[6] Williamson has also worked at the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group; the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal; Journal Register Newspapers; the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, where he directed the journalism and communication programs; and as an adjunct professor at The King's College.

[7] Williamson was the editor of The Bulletin, a now-defunct daily newspaper in Philadelphia.

[3] In 2018,[11][12] he briefly joined The Atlantic but his employment was terminated following public criticism of a 2014 Twitter discussion,[13] in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for abortion,[14][15][16] as well as his reiteration of this suggestion on his National Review podcast in 2014.

[17] Williamson later wrote that his comments had been intended to "mak[e] a point about the sloppy rhetoric of the abortion debate" rather than to promote capital punishment,[18] noting that he had previously expressed strong reservations about capital punishment in general.