Commentary

By Professor Bill Hurst When vaccines began to be widely disseminated and a path back toward relative normality started to emerge in early 2021, it also became clear that China would not follow it. Relatively slow to roll out vaccines, the PRC did manage to inoculate a very high percentage of its population on nearly the...

By Sophia R. C. Johnson In light of the Russian Orthodox Church’s (ROC) complicity in the Kremlin’s violent nationalist polemics, scholars and religious leaders are calling for alternative models of religious political engagement. I wrote recently about the role of the russkii mir or Holy Rus ideology in Russian...