The theatrical meltdown over Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter again shows how free speech is now a radically dangerous idea to the Left and most of the ruling elite, according to Andrew Doyle in Spiked. Though hardly naïve about Musk’s challenges in cleaning up the Twitter cesspool, Doyle sounds a hopeful note for open public discourse.

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.


