The chasm between “red” and “blue” states in the U.S. continues to widen. Contending and mutually incompatible understandings of the American experience vie for political ascendancy. Writing in The American Mind, the pseudonymous “Rebecca” argues that avoiding violent conflict may well depend on Americans considering a radical new political arrangement.
The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”
