A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
No place like home
New adoption law aims to place more kids more quickly
The diversity diversion
Clinton pushes another nonacademic subject on the schools
The tin-cup tyranny
In a communist famine, the military never misses a meal
Where's the beef?
A tin of beef is a tin of beef? Not so. The canned beef shipped to North Korea more than a year ago by the Mennonite Central Committee i...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Interactive: Virtual sub-creation
Video and computer games differ from film and television programs because they are interactive, allowing a player to participate in or even cause events, rather than merely watching them. For many...
Books
Books: The problem of pain
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things have to happen at all? If God is so loving, why is there so much suffering in the world? What is the difference between his permitting a ...
Books
Books: Reagan, father and son
In his book on Ronald Reagan, Dinesh D'Souza--author of Illiberal Education and The End of Racism--has given us a good read, but not for the expected reasons. It falls short as a biography: Mr. D'...
Movies & TV
Film: Fox Disnifies history
Anastasia is a perfect example of the fallacy of the words "based on a true story." In perfect faux-Disney style, one of the most malign periods of history becomes a cartoon fairytale. 20th Centur...
Culture
Culture Notes
Veith's believe it or not A campaign against Christmas commercialism hit a roadblock when the TV networks refused to sell ads for a "Buy Nothing Day." Activist Kelle Lasn, whose anti-materi...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
I don't need forgiveness from people. The one person I needed to get forgiveness from, I got a long time ago-that was God. But I needed to apologize. Former associate attorney general WEBST...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Cuba libre The anti-communist Cuban exile leader who dreamed of one day becoming president of Cuba died last weekend at 58 after a bout with lung cancer. Jorge Mas Canosa built a political ...