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Enough with the Scandinavians already

Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen (Aarhus): What Can and Cannot be Willed: How Politicians Talk about National Identity and Immigrants. Eirikur Bergmann (Bifrost): Populism in Iceland: Has the Progressive Party Turned Populist? The Inexplicable: Karl Ove Knausgaard goes inside the mind of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. Rick Paulas on how a Thor-worshipping religion turned racist. Nordic Zombie Arguments: Matt Bruenig on two amazing things about watching the American Right struggle mightily to contend with the smashing success of the Nordic social democracies; and on the final move of right-wing economists whenever the assumptions of their ideologically-infused policy prescriptions end up contradicted by observed reality. Enough with the Scandinavians already: Scandinavian countries come out on top in another ranking system — but is this strictly due to the Scandinavians? “Besides music servies, wireless tech, self-driving cars, and modeling superior policy, what have the Nordics ever done for us?”