Many past cultures left no written record, so their orally transmitted creation myths are now increasingly misused to trump scientific evidence such as DNA analysis. In Quillette, Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer tell how disagreeing with the literal interpretation of animistic myths is met with predictable cries of “racism” and “white privilege.”
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.”
