Time was when National Geographic exemplified the primal need for adventure matched with an earnest commitment to open inquiry, according to Mark Judge in Law and Liberty. Yet even this seemingly rock-solid magazine has been deeply corroded by wokeness and the obsessions with racism and gender. Judge praises the publication’s adventurous, honest and balanced history – apparently another lost world.

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.


