Nations, like people, can experience collective traumas amounting to a psychological unravelling. Benjamin Kerstein, writing in Quillette, thinks a significant part of the American public on both the left and the right have given up on their country. There are numerous signs, writes Kerstein, that the American Republic is coming to an end.
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.”
