In his newly released memoirs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter presents himself as a victim, magically transforming his copious vices into virtues. In Spectator US, Dominic Green tells how a colluding media spins the story of a corrupt President and his sleazy son into one of absolution and redemption.

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.”


