Kevin D. Williamson, longtime columnist and roving correspondent for National Review before and after a much-publicized brief interlude at The Atlantic, has worked as deputy managing editor and theater critic for the New Criterion, done a tour for the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group, where he learned to beware of monkeys and the gifts they throw, and reported and written for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He also directed journalism and communications programs at George Mason University, and worked as an adjunct professor at the King’s College.
In all, an impressive resume for any professional journalist, to say nothing of a journalist who, despite the occasional obscenities and vulgarisms purposely dropped like monkey gifts into the great wash of rhetoric and page-long paragraphs, still produces elegant prose — a prose that is demonstrably, in the new age of social media, increasingly less and less in demand.
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