Seva
@seva.bsky.social
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see
stalin could only dream of a purge like this
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
stalin could only dream of a purge like this
there's an unusual number of people on social media invested in pretending that epstein only worked for Israel and never for Russia. almost like there's some monetarily-rewarded motivated reasoning happening
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
there's an unusual number of people on social media invested in pretending that epstein only worked for Israel and never for Russia. almost like there's some monetarily-rewarded motivated reasoning happening
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
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Same reason educated left folks have tended to minimize or ignore or deny the scale & effectiveness of Russian state interference and disinfo campaigns in foreign countries —conspiratorial thinking is distasteful hangover of the cold war, mccarthyism etc that only vulgar simpletons engage in
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Same reason educated left folks have tended to minimize or ignore or deny the scale & effectiveness of Russian state interference and disinfo campaigns in foreign countries —conspiratorial thinking is distasteful hangover of the cold war, mccarthyism etc that only vulgar simpletons engage in
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that's the real weakness of eddington the movie: it thinks conspiracy theorists are something for stupid uneducated rubes while criticizing the liberal establishment *only* for being smug, self congratulatory, and dumb
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
that's the real weakness of eddington the movie: it thinks conspiracy theorists are something for stupid uneducated rubes while criticizing the liberal establishment *only* for being smug, self congratulatory, and dumb
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
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Must read. Both RussiaGate and the Epstein Files involve "a sphere of elite impunity where American consultants, Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes, European politicians, Israeli intelligence figures and British ex-spies all swim in the same waters." @seva.bsky.social 1/
February 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Must read. Both RussiaGate and the Epstein Files involve "a sphere of elite impunity where American consultants, Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes, European politicians, Israeli intelligence figures and British ex-spies all swim in the same waters." @seva.bsky.social 1/
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everywhere I look I see hidden agendas, secret alliances, and shadowy figures. except for my mysterious benefactor, who is beyond reproach
December 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
everywhere I look I see hidden agendas, secret alliances, and shadowy figures. except for my mysterious benefactor, who is beyond reproach
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US/the West emphatically won the Cold War and just as emphatically lost the peace
February 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM
US/the West emphatically won the Cold War and just as emphatically lost the peace
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But a lot of people who have spent many years in other kinds of activism - activism that is generally far less effective than our networks have been - seem horrified that Minnesota moms and college students stumbled on a new model. They are rushing to assert themselves as the “true” organizers.
February 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
But a lot of people who have spent many years in other kinds of activism - activism that is generally far less effective than our networks have been - seem horrified that Minnesota moms and college students stumbled on a new model. They are rushing to assert themselves as the “true” organizers.
people who are just now realizing chomsky is bad
February 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
people who are just now realizing chomsky is bad
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now I'm kind of curious about the disciplinary breakdown. econ and evo psych people well represented. any historians or humanities people?
No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
now I'm kind of curious about the disciplinary breakdown. econ and evo psych people well represented. any historians or humanities people?
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No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposing political teams but the epstein files and russiagate are the same story
February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposing political teams but the epstein files and russiagate are the same story
it has a certain lenin in the display case charm
i have not jumped on the “any day now” bandwagon thus far, but he legitimately looks near death in this photo.
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
it has a certain lenin in the display case charm
my favorite daytime activity is a sudden 10-part sneezing fit. it lets me know i'm alive, or possibly dying
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
my favorite daytime activity is a sudden 10-part sneezing fit. it lets me know i'm alive, or possibly dying
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The German armaments industry
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The German armaments industry
putin's most impressive accomplishment is getting europe to cheer for German rearmament
❗️🇩🇪German defense company Rheinmetall plans to soon produce 1.5 million 155mm shells per year — more than the entire 🇺🇸American industry combined.
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 PM
putin's most impressive accomplishment is getting europe to cheer for German rearmament