Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy explains that the corporate world’s seemingly whole-hearted commitment to “diversity, inclusion and equity” arises not from moral conviction but cynical fiscal calculation. In City Journal, Daniel Kennelly interviews Ramaswamy about his new book, Woke Inc: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.

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.


