Among Europe’s challenges is integrating Muslim immigrants into European society. Ayaan Hirsi Ali thinks European nations are deluding themselves by taking in large numbers of unskilled and uneducated migrants and refugees. In Unherd, Ali argues that politicians deliberately choose to misconstrue the disruptive nature of large-scale immigration.
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.”
