EDITORS’ NOTE

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Editorial| June 23 2023 EDITORS’ NOTE Thornton Wilder Journal (2023) 4 (1): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.5325/thorntonwilderj.4.1.v Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation EDITORS’ NOTE. Thornton Wilder Journal 23 June 2023; 4 (1): v–vii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/thorntonwilderj.4.1.v Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThornton Wilder Journal Search Advanced Search We hope this issue of Thornton Wilder Journal finds you well in spite of the bloody war in Ukraine continuing in its sixteenth month and democracy struggling around the world. Working on this issue, we were reminded of an address Thornton Wilder delivered on 6 October 1957 in Frankfurt am Main when he received the Peace Prize from the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers. Anticipating present-day discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusivity, Wilder spoke against the dangers of privilege and elitism in Western culture with its “thousand-years-old lies” that often saw/proclaimed women, men, and children as inferior because of their “race or color or religion.” He added: “Democracy is not only an effort to establish a social equality among men; it is an effort to assure them that they are not sons, nor subjects, nor low–that they should be equal in God’s grace” (Wilder 73). As a twentieth-century writer... You do not currently have access to this content.