Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill notes how, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, radical progressives have doubled-down on the culture war and the shaming of justices for deviating from the woke’s racialist demands. Clarence Thomas is thus being attacked because he ruled the wrong way for a Black man.

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.


