Robert Conquest’s 1985 tome What To Do When The Russians Come is eerily prescient. In The Worthy House, Charles Haywood argues that, like the Soviets, we are in the grip of a poisonous utopian ideology. We need merely substitute “woke” for “Marxist-Leninist” and we see a society almost indistinguishable from what Conquest describes.
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.”
