Amid mass confusion over how to make sense of the deluge of statistics unleashed by Covid-19, Leslie Bienen, Eric Happel and Tracy Beth Hᴓeg offer some relief for the puzzled and math averse. Writing in the online publication Persuasion, these math experts lay down four simple rules that can bring clarity to overheated concerns about pandemic risk.

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.”


