  I quickly review the successes of quantum chromodynamics. Then I assess the
current state of the electroweak theory, making brief comments about the search
for the Higgs boson and some of the open issues for the theory. I sketch the
problems of mass and mass scales, and point to a speculative link between the
question of identity and large extra dimensions. To conclude, I return to QCD
and the possibility that its phase structure might inform our understanding of
electroweak symmetry breaking.
