The social justice mob has taken umbrage with the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb, who led NASA during much of its glory period in 1961-1968, was an insufficiently woke white man. In The Pipeline, Janice Fiamengo predicts that the ideological purge in the hard sciences is only beginning.

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.


