CRT is a profoundly racist doctrine predicated on the ludicrous proposition that society consists of whites who have “privilege” and non-whites who are “oppressed.” In Quillette, Kenny Xu and Christian Watson argue that CRT is the polar opposite of the civil rights movement, fetishizing divisiveness and oppression and grinding down liberal impulses.
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.