Brexit appears symptomatic of broader political changes worldwide, including rebellion against ceding political authority to international bodies. In Unherd, Robert Tombs writes that visions of a “sovereign Europe” have faded. “Like the old Austro-Hungarian empire,” Tombs observes, “the EU continues because it cannot be reformed or replaced.”
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.”
