Russia’s expansionist appetites are growing and neighbouring nations are growing increasingly alarmed. After decades of neutrality, Sweden is dramatically increasing its military budget and strengthening its ties with Washington. In the Wall Street Journal, Michael M. Phillips and James Marson examine the Swedes’ strategy for resisting a Russian incursion.
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.”
