The American withdrawal from Afghanistan has precipitated another migrant crisis for Europe, and centrist parties there are adopting policies previously considered the preserve of the radical right. In Unherd, Aris Roussinos takes the pulse of the new political mood, which includes hardened borders and expedited returns to countries of origin.
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.”
