Computer Control, part 3

Why the defeater of communism finds himself defeated by ex-communists—and why he and the American public haven't noticed.

A widely cited 1987 study by James Davison Hunter claimed that students at evangelical colleges were becoming increasingly secularized and abandoning their orthodox faith commitments—and predicted that this trend would continue. A new study reviews the ev

Computer Control, Part 2

After September 11, books about Islam and the Middle East shot to the top of the bestseller charts. American readers sought to learn more about a religion that had inspired such zealotry, however misguided, and about a portion of the world that erupts in violence almost daily. Several months later, Books & Culture editor John Wilson and regular contributor Philip Yancey found themselves on a panel discussing a sampling of books that shed light on these issues.

Who's in charge?

On a February night ten years ago, Roger de la Burde never woke up from a nap on his sofa.

The American jury.

Enron claimed to be a business unlike any the nation had ever seen

What has really changed for women since the Fifties

And why they need to take responsibility for the spiritual nurture of their kids.

Questions for postmodern Christians

What the history of high politics doesn't tell about the creation of Pakistan.

In the wake of September 11, everyone was quoting W.H Auden's September 1, 1939. But Auden himself repudiated the poem's most famous lines.

Al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo

Questions for postmodern Christians

Where, in the passionate and sometimes acrimonious debate over worship today, is there any sustained reflection on the Eucharist?

Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy

Why the WTO protestors had it wrong.