David Robertson explores herd immunity and how it could have guided governments in a measured, more effective and less disruptive pandemic response from the outset. In StatNews, Robertson reviews the eruption of the strange obsession to prevent all Covid-19 infections and then only recognize vaccine immunity.

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.


