A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Persecution goes global: Over time, only the names have changed
Puritan father William Bradford wrote that the persecutors of his day used "bloody death and cruel torments, ... imprisonments, banishme...
Count your blessings
But this year, growing numbers of American congregations are also remembering the sufferings of their persecuted brothers and sisters in faraway lands
Notebook
Culture
Culture
The new establishment
Cashing in on postmodernism Consumer product marketers love to chase after the fountain of youth that flows with cash from the wallets of 16- to 29-year-olds. So they bring in consultants to he...
Books
Books: A pot of message
Yes, Virginia, our culture is kaput. The current state of society, with or without the buzzword postmodern, may be more comfortable, but its Christian memory is gone. To check the symptoms, look n...
Books
Books: The assault on childhood
The opening pages of a new book by film critic Michael Medved and his wife Diane provide a first-class borking. Not a "borking" in the senatorial sense (in which the Senate shoots down a Supreme C...
Culture
Politics by other means
President Clinton gets caught in a sex scandal, whereupon Newt Gingrich loses his job. Voters buy into the president's construction of truth and his deconstruction of ordinary language, and vote o...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
I don't have the ability anymore to practice medicine. I have a law degree that I cannot use. I've suffered humiliation. Barbara Battalino, a former Veteran's Administration psychiatrist pr...
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
A toddler's two mommies Imagine a son raised by a split-up lesbian couple both considered his mother by the law. That's already the case for an unnamed 2-year-old boy in New Jersey who was ...