2019 News of the Year
Notre Dame on fire ...
Journey to Middle Earth
For Lord of the Rings fans, New Zealand isn't simply a scenic destination; it's a story to inhabit
Moving on
THANK GOD FOR A SLOW news week. WORLD has had 12 straight cover stories relating to Islam, concerns about terrorism, the buildup to war,...
North to Alaska
From the Russian River to Mt.
Summer in Sydney
It's affordable to travel Down Under during the (American) summer, and Australia still has much to offer tourists during its winter
Pick-and-roll no more
No tandem but John Stockton and Karl Malone could make a YMCA-league strategy work on the world's foremost stage of basketball.
Invoking surprise
The House of Representatives chose May 1, the National Day of Prayer, to have its first-ever openly homosexual chaplain give its morning invocation.
Around the horn
Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan was suspended without pay by the newspaper for saying on television that Jason Kidd's wife needed someon...
Voices
Marvin Olasky
Pity for a great city
Alaska, Australia ... another site on the A-List for travel is, in my opinion, Austin, Texas, where I've lived for almost 20 years. Stay with me, please, because I hope this will not be the typica...
Mailbag
Appalling Marvin Olasky's "Darkness, destruction ... and decency" shows an appalling readiness to condemn as inhumane a century of honorable American fighting men. William T. Sherman's shel...
Joel Belz
Free speech, for some
I've been trying to think what it is that Christians have done to earn the restrictions that so many folks want enforced. The role of Christian missionaries around the world, for example, h...
John Piper
Guilt, grace, and AIDS
All sin comes with a price. And many pay the bill who never did the sin. This means that we must speak carefully about the cause of AIDS. If any epidemic ever spread because of disobedience to God...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
In the Spotlight: Left Behind
Expressing concern that its Left Behind series is falling behind, Tyndale House announced recently a contract with Tekno Books to produce two spin-offs of the popular series. Dan Balow, director o...
Culture
Frontier justice
Checking e-mail used to be one of the pleasures of the information age. The technology made it easy to keep up with family and friends and to launch into discourses with kindred spirits in discuss...
Culture
X2 marks the spot
Watch enough movies and the temptation will arise to revile everything that appears crass, commercial, big, and dumb-especially the typical summer blockbuster. But then there's a peculiar pleasure...
Culture
Bestsellers
Scoring system: 10 points for first place, 9 for second, down to 1 for 10th, on the lists of the American Booksellers Association (independent, so...
Dispatches
The Buzz
Wish you were here
A Washington meeting of evangelicals turned into a public rebuke of evangelical leaders-primarily Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson-who have made critical comments about Islam. ...
The Buzz
TOP NEWS
1 1,600 pages of confusion It's been 14 months since Congress approved...
The Buzz
FlashTraffic: Bush's tax cut strategy
President Bush's new message strategy for selling his troubled tax-relief plan is to tie tax cuts to job creation. The House has approved his tax-cut package intact, but senators are intent on par...
The Buzz
FlashTraffic: Interview with Newt Gingrich
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warns that the economy is key to President Bush's reelection and urges the GOP to focus on health-care reform. "The economy not growing is the biggest threat," h...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
"Contrition as a career move"? Stephen Glass is writing fiction again, but this time he's labeling it as such. Simon & Schuster this week releases The Fabulist, a semi-autobiographical ...
Quotables
Quotables
It's terrible to be associated with something like this. Ernst Sars, co-owner of the Oslo, Norway, company Brothers Sars, on sharing names with an infamous deadly disease. My conscie...
The Buzz
The hypocrites
It could hardly have been a surprise for Bill Bennett, after word leaked out early this month that he had a big gambling habit, to begin hearing derisive comments from his political and cultural f...