Kevin Williamson Has Terrible Ideas, But He Got One Thing Right

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This week's media drama unfolded at The Atlantic, after editor Jeffrey Goldberg hired, and then fired, Kevin Williamson, a conservative commentator for the National Review and other outlets.Over his career, Williamson has expressed plenty of odious beliefs (at least to those of us on the left). In a 2014 essay entitled "Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman," he wrote of the transgender actress: "Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is no