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Today’s Fight for Religious Freedom

Thomas F. Farr

Why should you and I, regardless of our religious or political beliefs, support religious freedom for everyone, everywhere? Because human beings must have the freedom to be religious.  We...

China’s Second Cultural Revolution

Thomas F. Farr

China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) occupies a place high in the annals of human savagery. Mao Zedong’s purges sought to purify Chinese communism and ended in catastrophic failure, leaving as...

Diplomacy and Persecution in China

Thomas F. Farr

We are witnessing a global crisis in religious freedom, wherein roughly three-quarters of the world’s people live in nations where religion is highly or very highly restricted. China presents...

Our Failed Religious Freedom Policy

Thomas F. Farr

The religious freedom policy mandated by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act has now been in operation for fifteen years. Not with standing the hard work of the State...

Religious Freedom Abroad

Thomas F. Farr

Seventy percent of the world’s population lives in countries that severely restrict religious freedom. Though largely ignored by the media, scholars, and policymakers, there is a global crisis in...

Cold War Religion

Thomas F. Farr

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945“1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368 pages, $80 A few years ago the new American ambassador to Beijing...

Islam’s Way to Freedom

Thomas F. Farr

The many strands of Islamist radicalism are a terrible threat to vital American interests. The dangers include transnational terrorism fueled by jihad and the growth of extreme Shari’a law...

The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom

Thomas F. Farr

Diplomacy may be the art of letting someone else have your way, but, these days, disagreements over what constitutes the American way in foreign affairs are profound. There are...