Seth Sanders
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University.
"A laid-back country picker with a laid-back country mind"
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, and Liberation Philology. Nova Scotia and California.
- What do an untranslatable poem and the world’s first author tell us about the nature of authorship? 🧵
- I always just ask the monster
- Reposted by Seth SandersStudents in the California State system launched a hunger strike today for Gaza. They're calling on the CSU system to divest, cut ties with Israeli institutions, forbid ICE and DHS from entering classrooms and notify students if they're on campus
- Reposted by Seth SandersCTV News: "Based on 2024 data, Elections Canada estimates that byelections cost approximately $22.91 per registered elector. At that rate, and with 85,237 registered electors in Battle River-Crowfoot, Poilievre‘s byelection could cost taxpayers as much as $1.95 million." #cdnpoli
- Odds on Pizzaballa just rose from 7/1 to 9/4
- Reposted by Seth SandersDeeply selfish & and an irrational disservice to the country. Imagine not understanding that a political party needs a strong intergenerational line of succession. And I didn’t know R’s have formal term limits for leadership roles in Congress while D’s don’t. Of course 🙄
- Reposted by Seth SandersThis comparison between the current crackdown on campus pro-Palestine activism with the Red Scare is important. The Red Scare was explicitly antisemitic, and today’s campus crackdowns borrow structural elements of antisemitism but claim to deploy them in defense of Jews. forward.com/news/717961/...
- Reposted by Seth SandersI've called AI use a form of class solidarity- you're signalling that you're on the side of tech companies, private equity etc. You don't necessarily have to be part of that class to express that solidarity though, and these organisations seem to believe it's more important than customer goodwill.
- Reposted by Seth SandersIn 1942, in the middle of a war for the very survival of civilisation, John Maynard Keynes explained quite clearly:
