Today’s gentility eschews allegiance to an actual place and instead proclaims solidarity with moralistic programs, such as opposing racism. Matthew Crawford, writing in UnHerd, examines the gentlefolk’s moral ecology. A politics of repudiation, writes Crawford, distinguishes the select few from ordinary citizens – explaining and excusing their contempt for them.
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.”
