In Law & Liberty, John O. McGinnis writes that educational and professional institutions must adapt to the reality of text crafted by artificial intelligence – which has become all-but indistinguishable from the “real” thing. And as more and more human functions are replaced by machines, McGinnis argues, a reckoning with our understanding of what it means to be human is due.

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.


