Once again, Mr. ‘Art of the Deal’ underperforms his predecessors.
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The Trump administration has offered a nuclear development deal to Saudi Arabia, a country pulled in two ways between the desire of its hereditary despot to move toward something closer to global normalcy and its economic-political elite’s longstanding entanglements with jihadist ideology and international terrorism.
Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.











