  I discuss the theoretical implications of the WMAP results, stressing WMAP's
detection of a correlation between the E-mode polarization and temperature
anisotropies, which provides strong support for the overall inflationary
paradigm. I point out that almost all inflationary models have a ``vanilla
limit,'' where their parameters cannot be distinguished from a genuinely de
Sitter inflationary phase. Because its findings are consistent with vanilla
inflation, WMAP cannot exclude entire classes of inflationary models. Finally,
I summarize hints in the current dataset that the CMB contains relics of new
physics, and the possibility that we can use observational data to reconstruct
the inflaton potential.
