Joel Kotkin thinks it’s no longer the traditional standard of Left vs. Right that defines the political landscape. In New Geography, Kotkin argues that the real divide is between those residing in the tangible world of making, using and growing real things and those floating in the incorporeal world of media and digital transactions.

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.”


