The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Financiers, Fabians and Fascists Paul Cudenec In my April 2025 article ‘The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting’, I took a look at Political and Economic Planning (PEP), a think tank pushing “modernisation” in Britain in the 1930s. [1] President of PEP from its foundation was Israel Moses Sieff (“Baron” Sieff), a Zionist businessman behind high street retailer Marks & Spencer (now known as M&S). Thanks to the blogger Escapekey, I have now been able to peruse a 1933 document issued in Sieff’s name which, as my fellow researcher notes, is very hard to track down. [2] The version that I am referencing was included in the US congressional record at the behest of Louis Thomas McFadden, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1915 to 1935. McFadden was certainly an interesting character. A banker by trade, he saw from the inside the corruption taking place in the world of finance and became an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve System. He noti...

  A Wolf by the Ears: Or Why the Left Can't Moderate The Patronage–Client Trap John Slaughter Definitions up front: By “Left,” I mean today’s progressive coalition clustered around the Democratic Party and the administrative class. By “dominant culture,” I mean the historic high-status bloc that set a nation’s public norms (in the U.S., White Christian Historically Protestant America). And by “Bioleninism,” I mean Spandrell’s idea that regimes recruit marginal or low-status groups with promises of power and protection, using their resentment to upend the old hierarchy/status quo. A coalition that survives by perpetual grievance must either mint new enemies or pay ever-rising rents to its clients.  — the Patronage–Client Trap The Left cannot tone down its rhetoric. It cannot moderate its positions. The Left is, by nature, a revolutionary force, and a revolutionary force needs an enemy. Every nation has a high-status ethnic or religious group that sets the public norm. That grou...