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
Oprahfication
Saint Oprah speaks Oprah Winfrey Speaks and the masses listen. Even though her cinematic epic Beloved dropped like a rock in theaters (see World, Oct. 31, 1998), her media empire and personal i...
Books
Books: Stealth Sunday schools
The relativism, subjectivity, and pop-psychology of contemporary educational theories have wreaked havoc in America's schools and America's culture. So now they are being implemented in some evang...
Books
Books: Killing the witnesses
"To be a witness means, ultimately, ... that a man is prepared to destroy himself, if necessary, to make his witness," wrote ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers in his classic 1952 autobiography, Wit...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Seducing the soccer moms With impeachment hanging thick in the air of the Capitol, Bill Clinton took a deep breath and made the final State of the Union speech of the 20th century. His hour...
Quotables
Quotables
The verdict of history will be that his perjury and witness tampering were true but were excused by Democrats out of partisan loyalty.... He will serve out his term as a political O. J. Simpson. ...