Americans are increasingly fed up with men who pretend to be women muscling into women’s sports. Caving to mounting pressure, the University of Pennsylvania last week annulled the winning results of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and restored records and titles to biologically female swimmers. As David Sypher Jr. notes in The Spectator World, this not only vindicates female swimmer Riley Gaines but scores a huge win for women’s sports and overall rationality.

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.


