Housing values in many Western countries are pricing younger generations out of the homeownership dream. Governments, however, focus increasingly on discussing the problem without taking meaningful steps towards solving it. In Law and Liberty, Alex J. Pollock and Edward J. Pinto explore the U.S. government’s latest foray into market-distorting policies.
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.”
