Nations, like individuals, can lose their grip on reality and go mad. Surveying the growing lawlessness and irrationality around him, Victor Davis Hanson thinks that the American descent is well-advanced. In American Greatness, Hanson writes that recent events are unsustainable and “will either cease or destroy the nation.”
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.”
