The American withdrawal from Afghanistan condemns about 19 million women to a life of brutality under the Taliban and Sharia. In Unherd, Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks to American culture’s perversity in which pronoun use is more important than the lives and physical safety of living, breathing women and girls.

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.”


