In a stunningly clear article in this week's National Review, conservative columnist Kevin D Williamson shows how revolution begets revolution which begets even more revolution, and what it all leads to, and it isn't pretty.
I recommend the article, "The Kulaks Must Be Liquidated as a Class", for your reading pleasure and edification. Do not make the mistake of thinking that I necessarily share all of Mr. Williamson's views, but anyone whose credentials include the Mumbai-based Indian Express Group and the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (that's in Texas, folks) can't be all bad.
According to our old friend Wikipedia, "In 2018, Williamson briefly joined The Atlantic; his employment was terminated following public criticism focused particularly on a 2014 Twitter discussion in which he suggested hanging as a criminal punishment for abortion and his reiteration of this suggestion on his National Review podcast in 2014. Williamson later wrote that his comments had been intended to "mak[e] a point about the sloppy rhetoric of the abortion debate" rather than promote capital punishment, noting that he had previously expressed strong reservations about capital punishment in general."
Wikipedia went on to tell us that Williamson is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (2011, Regnery), The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome (2013, HarperCollins/Broadside Books), The Dependency Agenda (2013, Encounter Books), and The Case against Trump (2015, Encounter Books), and has contributed chapters to The New Leviathan: The State Vs. the Individual in the 21st Century (2013, Encounter Books) and Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval (2013, Encounter Books).
Whew! That's an impressive amount of output in a fairly short amount of time. Whatever you may think of his writing, Mr.Williamson has clearly demonstrated that he is at least one thing: a writer.
That was my goal at one time too, and all I have to show for it are a couple of blogs.
In other news, tomorrow would have been my Aunt Marion's birthday, her 120th had she lived. Unfortunately, she died in 1987.
I am trying hard not to make a judgement about Mr Williamson because I have not read anything of his. On the surface based on the titles you offered he seems to enjoy sensationalism.
ReplyDeleteEmma, I don't remember ever consciously reading anything by him before, but I do think he was right on the money with this piece. (P.S. - I apologize for my tardiness in responding.)
DeleteNot sure what a Kulak is but it sounds as if it could be something rude in Mongolian. I rarely read political stuff as politicians always think that the answer to the worlds problems is more government when I believe the opposite is true.
ReplyDeleteAdrian, I think kulak and gulag (as in The Gulag Archipelago) must be related. If you had bothered to read this article, you would have found that Mr. Kevin Williamson does not think the answer to the world's problems is more government. (P.S. - I apologize for my tardiness in responding.)
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