In Unherd, Joel Kotkin dissects the critical New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races in last week’s U.S. off-year elections. Kotkin theorizes that Republican contenders found their path to victory in the post-Trump era with a strong stand against radical racialism in schools, a defence of public safety and a focus on the economy.

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.”


