Nancy Pelosi wants an inquiry into the January 6 riots in Washington, D.C. Roger Kimball concurs. In Spectator US, Kimball argues that such an exercise must address the discrepancies between media coverage of the Capitol Hill riot and their virtual silence during last summer’s “mostly peaceful” burning and looting of American cities.
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.”
