Our schools and universities suffer from an enervating cultural cringe, condemning Western civilization as morally defective while teaching students to praise every culture but their own. Eminent historian Andrew Roberts issues a clarion call in the National Review to restore the teaching of Western achievements and values. Without the West, Roberts argues, the world would resort to a neo-Darwinian free-for-all.

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.


