Gary W. Houchens’ review in The Imaginative Conservative of the educational implications of Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony, spells out how we should treat educational policy: as a tool with which to form young people into virtuous adults with a deep respect for family, faith, tradition and nation.

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.


