French President Emmanuel Macron is rejecting the mainly American “woke” notion that all history is to be viewed through the lens of race. Such an agenda “Gnaws at national unity and attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.” In the New York Post, Glenn H. Reynolds gives the dapper Frenchman a thumb’s-up.
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.”
