“When did we begin to resemble our old Cold War enemies?” asks Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. With woke culture, media manipulation and ideological conformity dominating nearly everything, the author observes how much the U.S. is emulating the practises of the West’s erstwhile opponents.

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.”


