2018 News of the Year
Agony and ecstasy—12 months of turmoil, disaster, death, rescue, victory, and celebration
God and Man at Cambridge
Back to the scene of the crime: In Cambridge, where early American Puritanism once reigned, relativism now holds sway.
A Caveman with Convictions
A nationally acclaimed cartoonist is the latest casualty in the cultural elite's ongoing purge of Christian ideas from the mainstream media, but he hopes his persistence will expose them for "what they are" and help pierce the veil of journalistic object
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Culture Notes
A set of their own A new survey of 2,000 children in grades 3 to 12 finds that children watch an average of 21 hours of television per week. Seventy-one percent say their parents set some r...
Books
Books: Outliving the conqueror
"The Church," according to the English historian Hilaire Belloc, "is a perpetually defeated thing that always survives her conquerors." Reading these two books convinced me of the truth of that ap...
Books
Beltway Books: Beyond the soundbites
With an initiative to end affirmative action on the California ballot, racial quotas may become one of this year's hottest issues. In Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice, Te...
Culture
The real TV evangelists
The Media Research Center's initial "Faith in a Box" study explored how entertainment television handled religion in 1993. The report showed that on the rare occasions when sitcoms, dramas, minise...
Books
Books: Politics as usual
In one of her typically scathing reviews, British critic Rosalind Miles wrote, "If you enjoy arrogance for an appetizer, muddle for the main course, dullness for dessert, and absurdity for afters,...
Movies & TV
TV & Film: The dilution delusion
A few years ago, Bill Moyers, a one-time Southern Baptist seminarian who converted to the more journalistically correct canons of liberal theology, began to publicize his spiritual quest by means ...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
A time for choosing The partial-birth abortion issue, if nothing else, is helping draw a bright line between the good guys and the bad guys. Evangelist Billy Graham, whom we've criticized i...
Quotables
Quotables
It was classic Clinton to wipe away the phony tear. Newsweek's HOWARD FINEMAN, the magazine's deputy Washington bureau chief, defending a speech he gave to a doctors' group in which he ripp...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
New Era update Harvard and Princeton both announced on April 10 intentions to return $467,000 and $2.1 million respectively in money received from the Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, a...
Quotables
Quotables
The wise do not believe in the resurrection of the dead.... So everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get thems...