The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Post-Epstein Document Dump: The Moment for Left-Right Populist Unity? Benjamin Bartee That a multinational cabal of sadistic, rapacious pedophiles has infested every major institution of the West, insulated from the law, has never been more indisputable than at present. For years, for reasons that make no logical sense, this simple reflection of reality was coded as “right-wing conspiracy theory” and dismissed out of hand by the self-professed practitioners of respectable journalism. Furthermore, anyone espousing it — we all remember #Pizzagate, the purveyors of which have been vindicated in spades with the recent Epstein email dump — was portrayed as a threat to Democracy™ who ought to have their social media accounts suspended and should probably be prosecuted for hate speech. That was then; this is now. What a difference a few million emails from Epstein and Co. make —  replete with obviously coded language  about “young coconuts from Thailand,” “grape soda,” and “ch...

  The Sweden Syndrome A case study in euphoric national suicide John Carter In 2008,  Sweden castrated the heraldic lion of its Nordic Battle Group . While riding a municipal bus in Uppsala, I had the opportunity to observe a group of high school students. In one seat were a few Swedish boys, of the bespectacled, well-behaved, and soft-spoken variety typical of Sweden’s intermediate professional classes. In the seat next to them was a small group of Swedish girls. Behind the girls were some Arab boys, who were engaged in pulling the girls’ hair and otherwise tormenting and teasing them, much to the girls’ displeasure. In other circumstances this might have been an innocent, even light-hearted scene, and there was a part of me that was amused by the Arab boys’ antics and the girls’ protests, but the rigid posture of the Swedish lads, the way they carefully looked anywhere but at the Arab boys, gave the scene a tense, dark aura. Here in microcosm was a holographic fragment of Sw...