"Vulgarians," "Vigilantes," and the Great Cell Phone Smashing of 2013
National Review 's roving correspondent Kevin Williamson made himself a folk hero of the Twittersphere when, at a recent performance of the new musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 , he seized the cell phone of a woman sitting next to him and threw it across the theater. Hailing himself a "vigilante" standing athwart the texting "vulgarians," Williamson protested his ejection from the theater. "In a c…