Because Michel Foucault offered a radical critique of all forms of power and administrative control, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat suggests that the leftward lurch of society’s ideological balance of power means Foucault’s following is now mostly on the other side. The left demands above all piety and loyalty, leaving no “safe space” for Foucauldian thought.
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.”
