Sincere confessions of profound ideological error are surpassingly rare on the left. So when they do occur, conservatives should exercise magnanimity towards the individual who has awoken from Wokeness. In Real Clear Energy, Brian Gitt details his two-decade-long realization that “green” or “sustainable” energy is at once a utopian fantasy, a technical house of cards, a pack of lies, a multi-trillion-dollar scam and a profound danger to everyone’s future wellbeing. Gitt urges the world to go nuclear (in energy, that is).
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.
