As critical race theory continues to play out in schools across North America, Shane Trotter in Quillette reviews a recent book by an American teacher who contends that the increasing anxiety, depression and social apathy seen in failing schools are rooted in even deeper sources than today’s ideological movements.

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.


