Much has been said about the decision by many governments to impose a “diplomatic” (i.e., fake) boycott on the Beijing Olympics. Joel Kotkin in Unherd laments the habitual, largely greed-riven kowtowing by Western corporations and governments of China’s unapologetic and expansionist regime.
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.”
