Bitter Winter

A Buddhism specialist ventures into the study of new religious movements. She caricatures an entire field and forgets a whole category of survivors.

Beijing can impose a commercial price on speech abroad. The deeper question is whether institutions in democratic societies will defend their freedoms when doing so becomes costly.

A murder in Mozambique raised embarrassing questions for the government and for the Catholic Church itself

Ten suspects, including leaders of two Fujianese associations, allegedly tracked and stalked a dissident influencer on behalf of the Chinese police.

A FOIA complaint against USCIS shows secularist activists eager to recast foreign priests, nuns, and temple volunteers as potential slaves—OneTaste style.

Beijing’s autumn gathering of the Central Committee promised cadres tighter discipline, endless study sessions, and lifelong scrutiny, while purges emptied a quarter of the seats.

A man accused of crimes committed in Crewe at a time when he had never set foot in the United Kingdom exposes an ill-conceived police operation

Robert Barnett’s book unveils new ways invented by the regime to control Tibetans, particularly nuns and monks.

Recent abductions of Shincheonji devotees and an agreement signed in a Tokyo law office suggest that a criminal practice may be revived.

Scandinavian media and politicians targeted a minority’s internal discipline, but judges in Oslo and Stockholm demanded evidence and found none.