Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 04/06/20268:30 on Saturday at Lettrétrage (Veteranenstrasse 21): we‘re chatting about the very alive literary legacy of Sebald. There’ll be some convo, some readings, some CRISIS perhaps—but all in all it should be a GOOD TIME! 011 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Check out The Auflauf, a new substack of Berlin books. Our first course: @mathildegm.bsky.social on Reimann, @brynstole.bsky.social on Clark, & me on Maci. @ajbwells.bsky.social is in the kitchen too helping cook and dish up lit crit, goss & conversations: theauflauf.substack.com 0127 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 23/02/2025“If there is room for optimism, we can find it in Die Linke, which has surged in the polls.” Oh, look, they’re standing for a diverse society and against the migrant baiting and bashing of the “center” parties… 130 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025But populism is not good!! It is a popular movement, but one that corrupts democracy by delegitimizing alternatives. See, for example, this definition of @finchelsteinf.bsky.social:. 100 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 29/01/2025„Now begins something new“ says the AfD, after the CDU allied with it for today‘s votes. Or, you could say, "now begins something old indeed." Grim day in Germany. The Brandmauer is burning. 0125 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I despise so much about Isaiah Berlin (especially how he barred the way to academia for Isaac Deutscher), but I re-read this passage yesterday and it felt, sadly, all the more true now with a tech titan fascist saluting from the podium. The children of Bazarov, though, grants them too much grandeur… 010 0
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social · 27/11/2024SANCTA says culture is holy. Don’t dream it. Don’t cut it. Fund it. 011 0