The outdoor transmission rate of the Covid-19 virus is practically nil. Yet as Heather MacDonald discovered, New Yorkers in Central Park are staying far apart. Writing in The Spectator USA, MacDonald concludes the public health establishment is determined to sustain the hysteria.

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.


