The typical journalist once sought to present the facts neutrally and let readers decide. Now, reporters see themselves as agents of change, finding no ethical problem in melding fact and opinion. In Spectator US, Charles Lipson tells how the formerly fact-driven Associated Press deteriorated into a woke organization.

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.”


