A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
Raising her head
A seminary student once told me that he hadn't slept well for the last three nights, and that by the third night of praying for sleep his faith was shaken. I do not fault him for this; I am just a...
Joel Belz
Empathy for us all
King Solomon, meet Barack Obama. You might just have what he's looking for. Obama says in so many words that he wants judges who show "empathy." If anywhere in the history of jurisprudence...
Mindy Belz
Mr. Obama's war
Now begins a precarious transition in the Near East and Central Asia that I am tempted to call a shell game. Low-brow metaphors about real war are a tool used by the other side, but I plunge ahead...
Marvin Olasky
Glory observed
What kind of tea are they drinking in London these days? Our cover story quotes three British authors as we assay reasons for optimism. And a recent article and book by writers across the pond are...
The Editors
Mailbag
A lot of sense Thank you for putting my favorite subject on the cover ("A day in the life," May 9). Gov. Mike Huckabee has fought the evil of abortion his entire adult life, and his record ...
Janie B. Cheaney
Can we talk?
It's beautiful, it's essential, it's earthy, delicious, funny, filthy. It's enormously powerful, yet easily crushed. It can be done in less than a minute, yet consumes lifetimes. It can drive one ...
Life and death
Mortality indeed stalks us all. But I'm talking about the death culture-abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. The death peddlers here and abroad seek to remove legal protection from pro-li...
Culture
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
What's striking about these pieces for two pianos is that they don't sound as if they're being performed by four hands. So add the ability to make twice as much sound like "once as much" to the re...
Notable Books
Notable books
Isaacs' well-written and edgy memoir traces her life from childhood to her 40s as she tries to figure out where God is and why she's miserable. As her actress/comedian career takes her to Hollywoo...
Movies & TV
Summer cinema
Summer is upon us, and along with the heat comes Hollywood's biggest and best enticements to escape it. Here we take a look at some likely blockbusters as well as a couple of smaller films making ...
Movies & TV
Eddie grows up
Eddie Murphy is back, but this time without a fat suit or talking animal in sight. Instead, he delivers a sweet, nuanced, and funny performance as a father baffled and intimidated by his daughter....
Movies & TV
Bitter unions
Anyone worried about the affronts to traditional marriage presented in modern media would do well to remember that matrimony had to do battle with the late Noel Coward first. It's hard to think of...
Music
Art for youth's sake
The pianist Glenn Gould once began an interview with Leopold Stokowski by asking the then-87-year-old conductor to imagine a planet populated by "highly developed beings who . . . have achieved a ...
Books
Eyes to see
Thomas Farr's World of Faith and Freedom (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) has an informative subtitle: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security. That's exactly right. E...
Theater
Life saver
When CBS on June 7 televises the Tony Awards for the best of Broadway, Tovah Feldshuh, lead actress in Irena's Vow, will not be a nominee. Her absence from the list was a leading omission, accordi...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Toy story There's no way Pipi Quinlan has a sandbox big enough to play with the toy she bought on the internet without her parents' permission. In May, the 3-year-old New Zealand girl woke ...
Quotables
Quotables
"It's construction, not reconstruction." A U.S. Army officer in Afghanistan's Jalrez Valley, quoted without being named by The New York Times, on the difference between the American effort ...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Roland's roil The bizarre saga that is Illinois politics careened further down the path of the absurd when a federal judge unsealed a recorded conversation between Sen. Roland Burris and Ro...