The science curriculum is now used to endorse the zealotry of the eco-doomsayers. We humans are destroying the planet, students are told, and their task is to save it. In City Journal, Shepard Barbash argues that science education should focus on providing students the tools and knowledge to explore the natural world.

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.”


