Following an FBI report showing the U.S. murder rate soared 30 percent in 2020 – the biggest single-year increase ever recorded – the “defund the police” movement has found itself on its backfoot. Writing in City Journal, Charles Fain Lehman charts the many imaginative ways the Left has tried to wave away the violence its protests and demands have unleashed.

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.”


