The concentration of wealth and power in America has never been more pronounced. But for Dominic Green, the rich-poor chasm is more than economic. In the Spectator US, Green argues that a seemingly unbridgeable gap between a modern-day version of nobility and peasantry has destroyed the American democratic compact.
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.”
