Alex Stern

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

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

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[Justin H. Vassallo @jhv85]

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
https://t.co/XBStgBSps7

[arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh]

ICYMI: check out my feature on Fr Neuhaus in the latest issue of @commonwealmag—a figure ripe for reappraisal today

[arvin alaigh @arvinalaigh]

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 🫡

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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.
https://t.co/R9AYCwukot

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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:
https://t.co/5V6W6xpxDg

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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:
https://t.co/hMFBQkqK38

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

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[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

Wrote about soccer, VAR, and Alasdair MacIntyre

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

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[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

Good day to read my critique of instant replay in @commonwealmag

[Roberto Parrottino @rparrottino]

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”.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

Sullivan's Travels is a masterpiece

[Kit Wilson @kitwilsonwriter]

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! https://t.co/RZhaMm1hQo...

[Ross Douthat @Douthat60]

A good review of Pollan that doubles as a useful contribution to A.I. consciousness discourse.
https://t.co/qmRy0b4cXx

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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:
https://t.co/JOhQ4bJwdD

[Marc J. Dunkelman @MarcDunkelman]

Was a treat to do an interview on Why Nothing Works with @AlexWStern at @commonwealmag. Eager for thoughts and reax.

https://t.co/B40kFKuEHl

[Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio]

"Our language did not evolve for scientific or metaphysical purposes, but just to help us make do and get along in the real world."
https://t.co/9pux9my2oE

[Tom Clark @prospect_clark]

“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

[Alex Stern @AlexWStern]

https://t.co/nyykbZQnXT

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I wrote about Wittgenstein and whether AI can mean @commonwealmag