Nations, like individuals, can lose their grip on reality and go mad. Surveying the growing lawlessness and irrationality around him, Victor Davis Hanson thinks that the American descent is well-advanced. In American Greatness, Hanson writes that recent events are unsustainable and “will either cease or destroy the nation.”
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.