
Features Editor @commonwealmag. Writing @aeonmag, @hedgehogreview etc Book: Fall of Language @Harvard_Press. Pitches: astern at commonwealmagazine dot org
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Joined March 2021
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For @commonwealmag I wrote about Angie Nixon's underdog Senate campaign--and how she could tap into Florida's own overlooked legacy of left-populism
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ICYMI: check out my feature on Fr Neuhaus in the latest issue of @commonwealmag—a figure ripe for reappraisal today
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on this note—for the upcoming November issue of @commonwealmag, I have a feature on Fr Neuhaus, his political conversion, and his legacy—give it a read and let me know what you think!
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beyond delighted and honored to receive this fellowship from @commonwealmag, a magazine I've admired for so long! and excited to get to work over the next year 🫡
We're delighted to announce that @arvinalaigh is the recipient of this year’s Centennial Fellowship!
During his Fellowship, Arvin will examine the historical and current state of nonviolent activism by faith-based groups.
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"The problem with self-help is that in offering solutions, diagnoses, boundaries, and methods, it protects suffering readers from a genuine encounter."
Drew Calvert: Literature is not about you.
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St. John’s is attempting to justify a union-busting campaign by appealing to the university’s Catholic identity and mission.
@arvinalaigh reports on the cynical effort:
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Dave Eggers’s latest novel is the meditation of an older, successful artist on what his life might have been if he had been unable to work successfully.
@gideon_leek reviews:
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Good day to read my critique of instant replay in @commonwealmag
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Marcelo Bielsa: “Jugar cuatro tiempos en lugar de dos altera la concepción que culturalmente se había construido para interpretar el fútbol. No le agrega nada y le quita mucho. Cuando se dividió en cuatro no se pensó en el efecto que puede tener sobre lo que hizo que el fútbol sea un deporte que enamora, sino que se pensó en otro tipo de repercusiones que no las discuto ni las analizo. Antes de esta decisión el fútbol tenía una característica; ahora tiene otra. La gente se enamora del juego por sus características”.
Marcelo Bielsa optó por mirar de frente al negocio, hacia donde muchos hacen la vista gorda o, directamente, donde actúan como cómplices. El de Uruguay es el entrenador tercermundista que eligió la opción preferencial por los pobres hinchas. En @tiempoarg. tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/b…
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Also very pleased to see this picked up by Arts & Letters Daily today! @al
Michael Pollan’s new book follows the race to uncover the nature of consciousness. He finds many leading scientists dabbling with psychedelics.
@kitwilsonwriter: 'Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping'
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The June issue is here! Feat.:
- @MassimoFaggioli and Thomas Banchoff on liberal democracy & the Church
- @ianmarcuscorbin on our 'ownerist' society
- Ellen Wayland-Smith on the hardness of Christian love
And more! commonwealmagazine.org/issue…...
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A good review of Pollan that doubles as a useful contribution to A.I. consciousness discourse.
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"Are we disaffected because things are so bad or have they gotten bad because we’re so disaffected?"
@AlexWStern on the world of Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude:
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Was a treat to do an interview on Why Nothing Works with @AlexWStern at @commonwealmag. Eager for thoughts and reax.
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"Our language did not evolve for scientific or metaphysical purposes, but just to help us make do and get along in the real world."
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“To really understand language, LLMs would have to be capable of being born.”
Here’s someone who really knows their stuff drawing on the writing (and spirit) of Wittgenstein to expose the abject shortcomings of chatbots as substitute humans
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I wrote about Wittgenstein and whether AI can mean @commonwealmag




















