Calls for restrictions, mask mandates and lockdowns arise mostly from the political spectrum’s left end. These are the same people who only recently demanded civil liberties and the right to protest. Writing in Spectator USA, Megan Murphy maintains that authoritarianism doesn’t always arrive in the manner we expect.
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.”
