Our Mailbag pages this week include a representative sample of the many letters we received in response to our Aug. 22 Y2K special issue. Christians have often been slow in responding to cultural trends, but this is one area in which many have more awareness than most non-Christians.

With all the turmoil on Wall Street, there is reason to celebrate one economic development: Since federal welfare reform legislation was signed into law two years ago, several million people formerly on welfare have gained new jobs and new hope.

A generation ago, when Art Linkletter on his television program Kids Say the Darnedest Things asked a child to identify the president of the United States, one chuckle-producing response was, "Uncle Sam." Today, Bill Cosby has a similar show, but the answers sometimes are sadder: One little boy, asked the name of our current president, replied, "Oh, I can't think of his name. You know--that guy who cheats on his wife."

Editor’s note: See “Unfit for Power: It’s time for Donald Trump to step aside and make room for another candidate​,” where Marvin Olasky and the editors at WORLD write, “The standards we applied to Bill Clinton in 1998 are relevant to Donald Trump in 2016.”

Last week, as Bill Clinton was testifying and talking to the nation, his pastor at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington was equating the president with King David, because both leaders were involved in sexual immorality.

The Y2K bug and our reactions to it: That is now threatening to be the most remarkable providence of 1999 and 2000, and it's easy to see why. God's sense of irony often leads him to bring down leaders and civilizations by what we most idolize, whether it is power, sex, or computers. That we often worship our gods of technology is plenty of reason for the Lord of heaven and earth to put them, and us, in our place.

As the Clinton scandal watch warmed up again in late summer, reporters seeking scoops once more flocked to the Web site of Matt Drudge, the intrepid Internetter who back in January forced polite publications to make Monica Lewinsky a household name. Newsweek reported on July 27 that "everyone in Washington" looks to Mr. Drudge for information-yet at the same time, journalists are publicly attacking his Web site and new Fox News show for contributing to a decline of media standards.