Print Issue
March 19, 2012
Cover Story
A Gentleman and a Scholar
James Q. Wilson, 1931–2012
By Christopher Demuth
Also in This Issue
- Coming Apart? On Charles Murray — Yuval Levin
- James Q. Wilson — Jeremy Rabkin
This issue of The Weekly Standard was a tribute to the late political scientist and criminologist James Q. Wilson, who died in 2012. Christopher Demuth's cover essay remembered Wilson as both a gentleman and scholar, while Jeremy Rabkin contributed additional reflections on his legacy. The issue also featured Yuval Levin's analysis of Charles Murray's "Coming Apart," examining themes of American social fragmentation that resonated with Wilson's scholarly concerns about civic life and social order.