Charges of “institutional racism” are the evidence-free, all-purpose tool for ending meaningful discussion about disparities between ethnic groups. In Unherd, Douglas Murray argues that the problem with such accusations is not just their predictability and inaccuracy, but also that they distract from genuine attempts to investigate the complex questions surrounding race.
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.”
