America is more divided than at any time since its Civil War. Michael Anton thinks politicians must rouse themselves to genuine statesmanship to avert the horror of another violent secession. In The American Mind, Anton argues that the solution lies in redrawing state – and perhaps county and city – boundaries to reflect political realities.
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.”
