We are not yet living in a totalitarian state, but we are assuredly experiencing totalitarian microclimates. In the Epoch Times, Theodore Dalrymple argues that our freedoms are eroded not by government fiat but by monomaniacal pressure groups seeking to impose their views and their rules on society.
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.”
