Much of medical science is an ongoing debate rather than a stock of unequivocal results. John Lee, writing in The Spectator, reminds us that medical experts can get things quite wrong. It is the job of politicians and civil servants, not scientists, to decide whether our response to the virus is proportionate and when to reopen the economy.

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.


