Perhaps the most far-reaching damage to the American polity from the Trump era is the final destruction of journalism’s traditional ideals of objectivity and fairness in reporting the news. Writing in City Journal, Martin Gurri argues that the mainstream media have adopted a “post-journalism” business model: acting as unapologetic advocates for the various creeds, dogmas, and ideologies of the left.
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.”
