It’s the constantly repeated mantra of politicians who believe the incantation of these magic words releases them from fraught decisions. In Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner explains why few if any political challenges can be solved scientifically. In the political realm, moral judgement must always superintend science.

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.”


