Victor Davis Hanson reflects on the myths busted by the radical and at-times violent protests happening across North America. For too long, myths around elite education, anti-Israel vs. anti-Semitic, and pro-Palestinian vs. pro-Hamas (i.e., terrorist) were foisted on the American people by politicos and the media. Unmasking these myths, Hanson writes, opens a window into the left-wing Democratic base.
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.”
