A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations
In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness
Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?
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A strong witness Prof. Robert Koons is to be commended for his tireless Christian approach to the conflicts surrounding the Western Civilization and American Institutions program at the Uni...
My last column was about online education and the opportunity it affords to end leftist rule in academia. Now, let's look at the other citadel of secular liberalism, media, and see how the recent ...
Burma closed its doors to foreigners from 1962 to 1972. In 1972, it opened a crack-just for a few hours on one day. The Navigators swept in, and Thein Htay, a young medical doctor, responded in fa...
In an era when more business enterprises than you ever dreamed of are being auctioned off to Uncle Sam, who's to say what shouldn't be on the bidding block? If it's now OK for the governmen...
In the early days of a marriage, disagreements are terribly personal. Husband and wife have pledged to become one. They understand, in theory, that they are acting as a unit. But the actual practi...
Early in college I read Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian. Russell, 93 years old when I read that book, died five years later in 1970. He was a British philosopher and one of the founder...
In the early months of his administration the president ordered policy reviews of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and al-Qaeda but set no timetable for completion. Substantive talks with heads of state in...
Movies & TV
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, spend an hour looking for God in American history in Citizens United's new documentary Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage, whi...
Movies & TV
Oh, what a blow for Christian fans of Ricky Gervais. It's not that we expect him to extol our faith, which he clearly does not share. But to use his new movie, The Invention of Lying, to take such...
Music
When the Memphis power-pop pioneers Big Star ground to a halt in 1974, it would've been hard to find anyone-least of all the band members themselves-willing to bet that 35 years later their reissu...
Books
Why do we see Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich primarily as 1990s political opponents, when they had so much in common? In The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Gener...
Books
P&R last year published two notable works in anticipation of this year's celebration of Calvin's 500th birthday: David Hall's The Legacy of John Calvin and an edited volume, Theological Guide ...
Movies & TV
What if everyone in the world got a glimpse into their future? Would it alter the way we live now; would we make different choices in order to change the outcome we saw, or would we resign ourselv...
Notable CDs
It's easy to forget that between experimental jazz's avant-garde fringe and crossover jazz's tendency toward sophisticated muzak there exists a happy medium, where the virtuosity of the inwardly i...
Notable Books
This is the 11th book in the A.D. Chronicles, which cover the period when Jesus was alive on earth. The prologue, set in the present, doesn't make much sense if you read the books out of order, bu...
Movies & TV
Even though you can't figure anything out, you will be responsible for it on the mid-term" cautions physics professor Larry Gopnik (an amazing Michael Stuhlbarg) in the Coen brothers' new movie A ...
Quick Takes
A long life Walter Bruening has lived in three different centuries, remembers his grandfather talking about serving as a Union soldier during the Civil War, and this summer became the world...
Quotables
"This is one supersized ring." University of Virginia astronomer Anne Verbiscer, leader of a team of scientists that found a new ring around Saturn. The ring is so large, the team says, tha...
The Buzz
Sinking common ground When Democrats promised to find common ground between pro-life and pro-abortion forces ahead of last year's presidential elections, Kristen Day, director of Democrats ...