California is often regarded as the epicentre of radical, identitarian policies that create a spiral of high crime, homelessness, ruined civic life and crushing taxes. But one California city’s governing “triumvirate,” Thomas Hogan observes in City Journal, is stemming the tide of disorder, and offers some unexpected lessons for politicians.
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.”
