Remembering Mao’s Carnival of Hate

by Robert Carle

In the last seventy years, the Chinese Communist party has embarked on countless experiments that have left its subjects exhausted, which has lead to a rise in religious faith.  Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2024

Why China Loves Conservatives

by Eric Hendriks-Kim

Conservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech dystopia ruled by a Leninist party that negates conservatism’s attachment to civil society, Christianity, and individual liberties. You might expect the intellectual mainstream in mainland . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2023

Cardinal Zen on Trial

by Tim Busch

If Cardinal Zen is imprisoned, we should castigate Communist China with one breath—then ask what Beijing is thinking with the next. Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2022

Judging the Sins of Our Fathers

by Carl R. Trueman

The slavery of colonial and antebellum America was tragic but there is nothing we can do to change that history. The present is a different matter. That is our responsibility. 
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9 Sep 2021

Diplomacy and Persecution in China

by 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 a particularly troubling case. The assault on religion currently taking place under President Xi Jinping . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Xi Jinping’s Village

by Dan Hitchens

It is alarming how quickly Beijing’s new friends abandon their solidarity with China’s oppressed millions and start flattering the regime instead. Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2018

The Vatican’s China Whitewash

by Daniel Mark

The Vatican should stop denying the brutal, authoritarian character of the Chinese regime.  Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2018

The Great Terror

by Ronald Radosh

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repressionby stéphane courtois, nicolas werth, jean-louis panné, andrzej paczkowski, karel bartosek, and jean-louis margolinharvard university press, 856 pages, $37.50 Publication of The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred up a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2000