Until a recent article by Nicholas Wade, the “scientific consensus” was that Covid-19 came about naturally. In Unherd, Matthew Crawford shows how the catastrophe has brought a new and peculiar form of intellectual intimidation into view, one in which fact-based threats to institutional authority are met with highly moralized denunciations.
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.”
