A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Audio: Teach-yourself classics
One stumbling block to the resurgence in classical education is that most of us who wish to deliver it to our children didn't receive one ourselves. That has led many of us to do something quite f...
Music
Music: Vicarious faith
People want to know where I'm at," Bob Dylan told an interviewer in 1983, "because they don't know where they're at." "Am I a Christian?" Amy Grant rhetorically asked an interviewer this ye...
Books
Books: Hymns of the church
Ours is a singing faith. At every turn, on every occasion, and in every age the Christian church has been marked by a prolific love of music. Wherever the gospel has been preached, it has simultan...
Culture
Culture Notes
Manson kills again Chalk up another victim of the Manson clan-not by the crazed mass murderer locked up in prison, but by his fans, the shock-rock group Marilyn Manson. Raymond Kuntz, of Bu...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
It's just amazing to me that a guy could fall that far and have that kind of thing happen to him and survive. It's just an awesome display of how inches can make a difference in someone's life. ...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Sudden death Terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan, jumped from their car in rush hour traffic and fired at nearly point-blank range into a station wagon containing four American oil company work...