2019 Books of the Year
Great books tell stories. Here’s our pick of vivid and insightful new releases for better understanding America, world events, history, science, and theology
Courtly Combatant
Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson has been in the lion's den since 1991, when he horrified the "mandarins of science" by publicly challenging Darwinism.
Debate settled
LETTER FROM IRAQ: As anti-war protesters posture for the cameras, Iraqis say their daily lives-though difficult-are better now since their liberation from Saddam
Thursday night live
IRAN: Anti-government broadcaster gives Iranian citizens a chance to sound off on their hated theocratic regime-and asks the U.S.
Business
Retro retail SHE MAY BE OLDER THAN THEIR moms, but Barbie is still a big hit with young girls. First introduced at the New...
Voices
Mailbag
Trailblazers Let me congratulate WORLD for paying attention to independent artists like Belle & Sebastian and Death Cab for Cutie (Best-selling CDs, Nov. 1). The typical consumer knows ...
Joel Belz
Who's to say?
There's nothing statistically valid about my polling efforts-but I still like the down-to-earthness of my very informal twice-a-year surveys. I just go next door to the handy Wal-Mart, stand at th...
John Piper
Brokenhearted joy
THE FACT THAT CHRISTIANS ARE EXILES ON THE earth (1 Peter 2:11) does not mean we don't care what becomes of culture. But it does mean that we exert influence as happy, brokenhearted outsiders. We ...
Marvin Olasky
Bilingual & bicultural
OUR SIXTH DANIEL OF THE YEAR, PHIL JOHNSON, IS remarkable not only for his 15 years of perseverance with Intelligent Design in the face of snide attacks, but his good humor in refuting them. Some ...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Shouting heads
Presenting both sides is the way contemporary journalists think they are being objective. On television talk shows, "fair and balanced" often means two opposing politicians yelling out their party...
Culture
Cruise control
Say this about The Last Samurai: It has exceptional production values. The period detail feels authentic, the scenery is exquisite, and the battles are vigorously staged. Onscreen evidence of a si...
Culture
Window pain
THE AMISH KEEP UP THEIR RADICAL BRAND OF communal Christianity by rejecting modernity altogether. They don't drive cars or own telephones. They don't use electricity or anything that depends on el...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Keystone criminal, I Suspected mugger Tony Spencer apparently didn't do his homework. Mr. Spencer allegedly tried to pull a stickup at a Chicago ATM last month, but he chose the wrong area ...
Quotables
Quotables
All they cared about was a stupid DVD player. Linda Ellzey of Orange City, Fla., after a mob of shoppers rushing into a Wal-Mart Supercenter for a sale trampled her sister, Patricia VanLest...
The Buzz
The buzz
SUPREME COURT The government's terror-fighting tools are under scrutiny in the federal courts. Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated part of a 1996 anti-terrorism statute th...
The Buzz
Columbus copycat?
Insanity was a word that echoed frequently throughout the Washington area during last year's sniper spree that claimed 10 lives. It just seemed insane, the way innocents were picked off randomly a...
The Buzz
Blogwatch
The 'unseemly' Mrs. Clinton Mickey Kaus (kausfiles.com) may claim to be a Democrat, but the joy he takes in pouncing on his fellow party-members makes Blog Watch wonder. Target 1 for Mr. Ka...