Many have lost hope in the educational usefulness of post-secondary institutions, with their woke obsessions, destruction of free thinking and assault on standards. In City Journal, Wai Wah Chin sees reason for hope with the reinstatement by one of the U.S.’s leading academic lights of its knowledge/skills-based admissions process.

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.


