Earlier this month the American CDC declared racism an “epidemic” that posed a “serious health threat.” Similarly, the American Medical Association has called racism an “urgent public health threat.” In Unherd, James Billot argues that medicalizing racism leads to disregarding evidence-based specifics in favour of ideology-based generalities.
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.”
