Dignity Defined
July 30, 2012 · Emily Wilkinson, Magazine, Books and Arts
Weekly Standard Contributor
Emily Wilkinson
2 articles 2012
Emily Wilkinson contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2012, writing on cultural and social topics. Her pieces for the magazine explored themes of human dignity and isolation.
Only the Lonely
February 4, 2012 · Emily Wilkinson, Magazine, Books and Arts
We Americans—so the rough sketch of our archetypal character has it—are a people of rugged individualism, ambition, and, above all, unfettered, unrepentant movement. Summing up the 19th century in America, Frederick Jackson Turner wrote that “movement has been its dominant fact.” But movement was…