President Eisenhower’s prophetic 1961 farewell address warned Americans of the emerging “military-industrial” complex. Today there’s an even more frightening bastard child, the military-industrial-media complex, a colossus well on its way to determining what we’re allowed to think. In City Journal, John Steele Gordon warns of the profound dangers this represents.

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.


