The Mean Tweeter (aka Orange Man) remains loathed by all polite Canadians. But at least he got stuff done. Writing in Quillette, Josh Morrison reviews a new book on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s highly-successful Covid-19 vaccination development program – Operation Warp Speed. The key to this triumph, observes Morrison, was to “unleash the creative magic of private profit-seeking actors” while keeping government agencies and bureaucrats out of the way as much as possible.

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.


