It has festive treats, Christmas carols, decorations and costumes – as well as death-defying stunts, a wise-cracking and foul-mouthed hero, an inimitable villain, an ending that…you have to watch for yourself – and a cottage industry of argumentation over whether it is in fact a Christmas movie. John Phelan in American Experiment writes that Die Hard is that, plus a lot more besides – with a core character and message that inspires conservatives to stand tall.
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.”
