Mark T. Mitchell in RealClearBooks discusses his new book that regards American society and politics as dividing into an increasingly wealthy and self-righteous elite imposing “plutocratic socialism” (plus wokism) over an ever-more dependent and insecure citizenry, while the middle’s freedom, property and independence are continually eroded.

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.


