The current domination of feelings in our workplaces and social institutions, writes the pseudonymous “Lomez” in First Things, has coincided with the expansion of massive “HR” bureaucracies – largely led and shaped by women. The resulting focus on safety and risk-aversion has fuelled related obsessions like “trigger warnings” and “microaggressions” – and even helped drive governments’ response to the pandemic.

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.


