The dream of California as a land of sunshine and endless opportunity has collapsed into neo-feudalism, albeit one with better marketing. Disparities between rich and poor have never been greater, even as the ruling elite destroys the ordinary citizen’s quality of life. In Unherd, Joel Kotkin documents the state’s decline.
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.”
