In an essay of remarkable depth, James A. Berman explores how social cleavages, the woke movement’s need to create enemies, continuous threat-mongering (climate change, racism, pandemics) and historical nihilism are facilitating government by way of emergency. This portends the end of the rule of law and permanent power in the hands of a select – and Berman does mean select – few.
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.
