Why have many Western countries done much worse at handling the pandemic than some East Asian countries? In Bloomberg Opinion, Niall Ferguson finds that the keys to successful mitigation are early detection and early action. Taiwan did both while Britain’s Covid-19 plan turned out to be “part disaster, part non-existent.”
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.”
