Many European countries began closing their doors to refugees in 2015, with two notable exceptions: Germany and Sweden. In Foreign Policy, James Traub takes a look into Sweden’s experience over the ensuing half-decade, finding that moralistic internationalism may not be sustainable even for the most caring of nations.
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.”
