John O. McGinnis in Law and Liberty evaluates the “Defund the Police” movement’s equally destructive and fanciful younger sibling now taking hold in legal academia: abolishing prisons. McGinnis urges caution as the left-leaning academic establishment propounds short-sighted ideas that may leak out into the activist world.

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.


