James W. Lynch highlights the loss of purpose experienced by many in the medical field. Writing in Law & Liberty, Lynch argues that medical education fails to recognize students as humans seeking meaning. He cites examples like the impersonal transfer of information to patients, the abandonment of meaningful discussion, and the use of single-answer multiple-choice exam questions.

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.


