Josh Hammer writes in Newsweek on the self-fulfilling notion of “principled loserdom” currently popular among many mainstream conservatives in the U.S. Hammer urges the Right to recognize and adapt to the Left’s destruction of the old political norms, by moving from resigned complacency to stout conviction fortified by fighting spirit.

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.


