The Delta variant may be surging, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to panic. Writing in City Journal, medical doctor and former senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors Joel Zinberg succinctly lays out the facts on Covid-19 variants, infections, reinfections and immunity and concludes the pandemic “is likely to become a diminishing health risk.” Deep exhale.
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.”
