Michael Shellenberger is taking his solutions for the Golden State’s myriad self-inflicted, Progressive-created problems to the ballot box. Quillette’s Peter Clarke sits down with the independent candidate for Governor of California for a candid conversation on how Shellenberger would tackle the state’s simultaneous crises of homelessness, costs of living and crime.

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.


