Science is increasingly invoked to legitimize the transfer of sovereignty from democratic to technocratic bodies. In Unherd, Matthew Crawford maintains that the pandemic has made a fearful public consent to an extraordinary extension of expert jurisdiction over every domain of life, leading to the ominous development of “government by emergency.”
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.”
