The Black Lives Matter protests have produced a new breed of inquisitors. Like Torquemada, they demand blind allegiance to their orthodoxy and are brutally intolerant of dissenters from the One True Faith. Writing in The Intelligencer, Andrew Sullivan examines this new dispensation, which suppresses contrary arguments and shames and shuns those who make them.

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.


