Narratives are so pervasive in society, and in the psyches of groups and individuals, that it is impossible to ignore their relevance and...

[A note on style and audience. This post, and many of my others, is aimed at a dual audience. It is pitched between lay readers and...

Narratives move fast in social media. Especially the memes and cultural tropes. If you have ever stumbled upon 30000 (not a lot in...

Dr Bruce Long is producing theory and hypotheses to be tested by statistical means augmented with neural imaging coupled with stimulus...

SWRG will soon release research on the PRC's anti-terror re-education campaign in Xinjiang and the varied US and Western political...

The current religious freedom narrative (refer to the below images) promulgated by The US Secretary of State, conflates freedom of...

It's not unreasonable to adduce that faith leaders in the US have more social influence than does the government. This is in contrast...

- Dr Bruce Long Religion and secularism. They go hand and hand in the West, for the most part. Democratic Western nations have...

Everyone knows what false information and misinformation are, right? False information is messages or signals that are false, or not...

One of the prevailing themes in Sino-Western relations, and US domestic politics, since the eve of the Cold War in the 19th century, has...

We are a group of researchers, philosophers, scientists, journalists, and diplomats with an interest in all of the following: Chinese...