In Quillette, Razib Khan reviews American scholar Charles Murray’s new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race In America. Murray thinks the rise of identity politics and critical race theory endangers the liberal social order. Only by facing reality, writes Murray, can America hope to salvage its great Enlightenment experiment.

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.”


