Freddie DeBoer reflects in Unherd on the centre-stage role “neurodivergence” has taken on social media. The term describes a person who both seeks sympathy for and celebrates their mental and emotional afflictions. Via a book review, DeBoer offers a personal and thoughtful take that there’s still room in the middle to help those with psychiatric disorders.

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.


