In Quillette, Razib Khan reviews American scholar Charles Murray’s new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race In America. Murray thinks the rise of identity politics and critical race theory endangers the liberal social order. Only by facing reality, writes Murray, can America hope to salvage its great Enlightenment experiment.

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.


