This month Beijing ordered with the University of Hong Kong to remove the 26-foot high statue “Pillar of Shame,” the city’s last memorial to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Writing for Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Eli Lake draws a straight line from the Taliban’s much-decried destruction of 6th century stone Buddhas in 2001 to China’s own lamentable erasure of history.
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.”
