Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.

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.”


