Brexit has crystallized the question of what rights and duties accrue to EU member states. The issue remains fiercely contested and divisive. In Unherd, Larry Siedentop argues that the liberalism that long provided the EU’s raison d’être may no longer be viable.
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.”
