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The Washington Post

The wine industry doesn’t work the way Washington thinks it does

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 09/16/2025

Owning a vineyard in Napa Valley sounds fancy, but the wine business is, in reality, pretty gritty: It is a low-margin agricultural and food-processing business…

Business and Government

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What the ATF Does—and What It Doesn’t Do

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 01/06/2025

Editor’s note: In addition to his work at The Dispatch, Kevin D. Williamson is a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in which capacity he…

Business and Government

New York Post

Layoffs at Tesla reveal the need for fresh ‘green’ thinking

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 04/20/2024

Tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for electric vehicles. Billions more coming to subsidize charging stations. Non-stop jibberjabber about “sustainable” this and “Green New Deal” that.

Labor and Employment

New York Post

Eco-Warriors are now battling Christmas

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 12/23/2023

In one of the season’s most predictable developments, climate activists have declared war on Christmas trees, vandalizing holiday displays in cities across Germany. Like any…

Energy and Environment

The Dispatch

Why ‘Dollarize’?

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 12/15/2023

The newly inaugurated president of Argentina, Javier Milei, is variously described as a radical libertarian, a right-wing populist, and an ultraconservative. Rather than try to…

Banking and Finance

New York Post

New Yorkers can’t stop complaining about their blocked views

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 11/04/2023

New York City has many fine museums — it isn’t one. Yet.  But New York is the home of the nation’s second-dumbest urban political ecosystem…

Consumer Well-Being

New York Post

Americans may be richer, but they’re not happier

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 09/16/2023

US household wealth has hit an all-time record of $154.3 trillion.  So what? “Americans have never been wealthier,” CNN’s Matt Egan reports, and then raises…

Capitalism

The Dispatch

Of Course Your House Is Killing You

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 01/18/2023

There’s nothing as bad for you as living well. Here’s a nice memory: My wife and I are in Aspen, sitting by a fire that…

Deregulation

The Dispatch

The Real Climate Change Racket

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 01/06/2023

“The first climate racketeering suit is here,” Slate declares.  That is not quite true. It’s just that the first big climate-change racketeering case was not what…

Climate

USA Today

America needs the nuclear option to keep our homes warm – and to fight climate change

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 12/09/2022

In early November, the U.S. Department of Energy chose Westinghouse to build a new, much-needed nuclear-power plant, one that will employ “the most advanced light…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Population Bomb Scare

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 03/17/2022

CEI’s visiting investigative writer, Kevin D. Williamson, shares part two of a three-part cultural investigation of the environmental movement Les U. Knight has the gentle voice of an old…

Energy and Environment

National Review

Tales from the Carbon Cult in Glasgow

  • By: Kevin D. Williamson
  • 12/06/2021

CEI’s visiting investigative writer, Kevin D. Williamson, shares tales from COP26Myths of the 21st CenturyThere is a whiff of incense in the air, sweet and heavy as tree sap.

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