The outrageous abuse of The Two Michaels makes it hard for many Canadians to believe our country can evade the Chinese Communist Party’s long arm. In Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Wilson offers a potential model for doing so as he illuminates the resounding failure of China’s economic intimidation of Australia.

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.”


