Patrick M. Garry writes for the Imaginative Conservative that conservatism is now the sole creed defending the common man or woman against progressive elite hypocrisy, disdain and oppression. Populists and patriots, Garry urges, have a unique opportunity to reformulate conservatism as a movement and message of community, gratitude and joy.

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.


