Caitlin Flanagan, a successful writer at The Atlantic, thought herself too clever to succumb to that modern-day scourge, Twitter. Oh, was she wrong. Flanagan tells how her addiction to tweeting in 280 characters altered her circuitry, interrupted her ability to think cogently and logically, and generally disordered her life.

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.”


