In Joe Biden’s Washington, “infrastructure” now includes daycare, aides for seniors and lectures about systemic racism. In the New York Post, Glenn H. Reynolds wonders how a nation that a year ago became a net exporter of oil found itself facing fuel shortages. One answer: failing to invest in actual infrastructure.

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.”


