America is denying its roots. Under the guise of social activism, a lawless and violent mob is on the rampage. The editors of Commentary reject the mob’s radical re-writing of American history along with its newly invented heresies. And they remind us that eventually, if left unchecked, the mob comes for us all.

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.


