Philanthropy has helped keep society churning by providing sources of charity, culture and innovation outside the governmental and corporate spheres. Nowadays, however, many view philanthropy as essentially part of the public space. In City Journal, James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley defend billionaire Mackenzie Scott’s controversial attempt to keep her donations private.
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.”
