When the Covid-19 virus first appeared and our knowledge of its lethality was limited, “sheltering in place” and closing our schools appeared to be rational safeguards. But for Roger Kimball, writing in American Greatness, the evidence is now clear. Far from being an existential emergency, the virus is just a vicissitude of life.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


