Like the Stasi on steroids, wokesters are constantly sniffing around for those who sin against the Church of Social Justice. The latest heretic is the author of a book that only last year won the Orwell Prize. In the Spectator, Toby Young laments that even a foundation dedicated to intellectual freedom has caved to the woke mob.

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.


