While the destructive waves of protest that reared in spring 2020 have largely settled, the new reality has yet to prove reassuring. In City Journal, Thomas Hogan observes how the same students who only last year demanded defunding the police are now begging for security on their Manhattan campus. But where, wonders Hogan, were the adults?
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.”
