The American experiment cuts against the grain of human nature, which is to trust and care for people like us and be suspicious of people unlike us. In the Spectator World, Charles Murray argues that identitarianism has led to a growing white backlash, which will ultimately challenge the federal government’s legitimacy.
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.”
