Features Editor @commonwealmag. Writing @aeonmag, @hedgehogreview etc Book: Fall of Language @Harvard_Press. Pitches: astern at commonwealmagazine dot org

New York, NY
Joined March 2021
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ICYMI: check out my feature on Fr Neuhaus in the latest issue of @commonwealmag—a figure ripe for reappraisal today
Replying to @arvinalaigh
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. commonwealmagazine.org/liter…
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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: commonwealmagazine.org/st-jo…
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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: commonwealmagazine.org/leek-…
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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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Sullivan's Travels is a masterpiece
As I've thought more about it, "Sullivan's Travels" is funny but a very dark film. We can see that Sullivan is merely playing at being poor & can return to his rich, privileged life any moment, but that's not the case for the people he meets.
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Alex Stern retweeted
Also very pleased to see this picked up by Arts & Letters Daily today! @al
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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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"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: commonwealmagazine.org/stern…
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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
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