Steven Hayward at the Civitas Institute charts the remarkable transformation of the U.S. from energy beggar importing 75 percent of its crude oil into the world’s foremost producer and a major exporter of oil and natural gas. Out the window are “Peak Oil” theory, ever-higher energy prices and the green energy obsession. Plentiful affordable energy is now driving an American industrial revival and enabling the U.S. to lead the AI revolution.
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.”
