The American withdrawal from Afghanistan condemns about 19 million women to a life of brutality under the Taliban and Sharia. In Unherd, Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks to American culture’s perversity in which pronoun use is more important than the lives and physical safety of living, breathing women and girls.

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.


