The algorithms used by social media are notoriously incapable of distinguishing commentary from historical analysis or political advocacy. Case in point: Matt Taibbi in Substack tells of how Instagram, citing “community standards,” has removed postings that show Hitler’s rise to power as his contemporaries would have experienced it.

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.”


