Some may suspect Canada’s propensity to define itself as “not American” may be going too far – but it’s what we have going for us. Caught up in the Canadian bubble, many can forget what we’re up against. In Spectator World, Matt Purple provides a non-Canadian reality check on Canada’s ludicrous hubris.
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.”
