Few American politicians have greater self-regard than the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo (and the competition is steep). Following shocking revelations of corruption and mismanagement in his state’s pandemic response, demands for his resignation are increasing. Writing in The Guardian, David Sirota documents a modern morality tale of pride going before a fall.
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.”
