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
Culture Notes
Image is everything Postmodernism favors form over content, image over truth, desire over reality. This is why contemporary educational theory is not much interested in teaching anything an...
Music
Music: Clearing the smoke
In recent years, the music-industry hype machine has worked overtime to promote the image of the Rebellious Young Woman. From folk-rocking lesbians like the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge to t...
Books
Beltway Books: Capital(ist) punishment
The foundation of the American republic is the right to own property. It was widespread property ownership that made the New World so different from old Europe-yeoman farmers were independent of t...
Books
Books: Doom, gloom, hope
Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have bad consequences. If ever there were any doubts, these provocative new books would quickly dispel them. Arthur Herman is a professor at George Mason ...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Pro-life on a roll During the debates over partial-birth abortion, the only truth uttered by its staunchest defenders is that those who seek to outlaw the practice will not stop there. Bann...
Quotables
Quotables
We cannot say that human-rights conditions in China are better today than they were a year ago. Clinton administration National Security Adviser SAMUEL BERGER at a White House briefing on t...