Fascism concentrates economic power to achieve ideological goals, such as (in the 1930s) racial purity and conquest or (nowadays) gender equity and saving the planet. In Unherd, Joel Kotkin argues that the U.S. Democratic Party and corporate elite have joined into a new version of fascism.
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.”
