The world watched in horror as Notre-Dame went up in flames almost three years ago, and many opened their hearts and wallets to the great Paris cathedral’s revitalization. They might not get what they’re paying for. In the Spectator World, Grayson Quay highlights the disturbing secular shift underway in the City of Love.

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.”


