Canada’s colonial history bequeathed to us the richness of Western principles and values. In Spectator World, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a refugee from Somalia, unapologetically argues that the civilizational heritage of Western democracy is vastly superior to tribalism, communism or authoritarianism.
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.”
