A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Binary blowout?
By this time, worries about the millennium bug are gnawing at the minds of even the technologically illiterate.
Dissecting the bug
Everyone has questions about the millennium bug. "Where did it come from?" is the easy one. "How severe will the bite prove to be?" That one is much tougher.
Backward, Christian soldiers?
Armed with millennial expectations, some Christians view the Y2K bug in ways totally different from the secular experts.
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Back to household gods
Idolatry as interior design Did you just buy a new house? Do you want to keep up with the Joneses? Forget about adding that deck or swimming pool. Go rearrange everything according to a mystica...
Culture
Crossing the lines
Pop culture is in a taboo-breaking mode, crossing new lines and pioneering new ways to be offensive. Only last year, the movie version of Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne and based on Vladimir Nabo...
Books
Books: Taking the Bible cure
The Bible Cure, a recent addition to the ranks of Christian bestsellers, is the kind of book that gives me a headache. This well-meaning title from Creation House has as its premise: "Within the B...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Sleeping with the enemy Pamela Wiser was mad at the ex-boyfriend who infected her with the AIDS virus. So she decided to get even by passing on HIV to every man she could find. She says she...
Quotables
Quotables
We the religious people have to start to act up. Orthodox Rabbi Yehuda Levin of New York,calling on religious conservatives to oppose the gay political agenda. "There's no lobby promoting a...