Max Foley-Keene

No chops. Catholic. Socialist. Digital Editor @commonwealmag. PhD in political theory @BrownUniversity

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

Hey!! I'm extremely excited to be writing a good bit more for @commonwealmag, now that I'm starting as their new digital editor.

Below, I'm linking to my ~America 250 take~ on early American pamphlet wars, MAGA slop, and Christian hope:

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

@madeleineebaker You know Sony would have put the kibosh on the dramatic reading of the Lyceum address

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

@PhilKlay Thanks so much for reading, Phil!!

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

I truly loved my friend @MaxFoleyKeene's essay on America at 250—superb writing about, among other things, writing—and the hope found in the literary legacy of the founding generation. Plus: pamphlets, slop, MAGA, Dorothy Day, and more. Excerpt below, link in the next post:

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

Here's the link: https://t.co/qWTbtRkYSK

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

Sitman gets it!!!

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

I truly loved my friend @MaxFoleyKeene's essay on America at 250—superb writing about, among other things, writing—and the hope found in the literary legacy of the founding generation. Plus: pamphlets, slop, MAGA, Dorothy Day, and more. Excerpt below, link in the next post:

[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

The United States, on its 250th birthday, is a country in decline. American Catholics should embrace this sour semiquincentennial as a moment for discernment.

New from @MaxFoleyKeene:
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[Commonweal Magazine @commonwealmag]

Give our new digital editor, @MaxFoleyKeene, a quick follow!

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[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

Where I land...

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

Hey!! I'm extremely excited to be writing a good bit more for @commonwealmag, now that I'm starting as their new digital editor.

Below, I'm linking to my ~America 250 take~ on early American pamphlet wars, MAGA slop, and Christian hope:

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

'Rising Above the Slop'
https://t.co/mIBPmhptAX

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

It's been very fun to return to some of the political theory texts I spent most of my 20s studying, and I'm especially grateful to nerd friends like @MaxFoleyKeene for fielding, to take an example, the 5 minute voice message I just sent about studying PT at Berkeley in the 60s

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

parallel with the Knicks' extraordinary penchant for magically rallying, coming-up-from-behind to triumph at virtually the last minute was the weirdly fascinating drama of "Wemby" on the court distinctive not only by his height but the thinness of his body which appeared, beside his teammates, almost pre-pubescent, lacking maturity. no matter where you looked, there was always "Wemby" charging about anticipating an opening to shove, push someone with a solid adult body with a baby-faced look of insouciance: "Who? Me? I' m just a kid."

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An estimated 33.5 million children in the U.S. live in an area that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution.

About 10 percent of all kids live in a community that failed every air quality measure, the report found. https://t.co/x1I8JTO5df

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Not just correct, but self evident and obvious to anybody who doesn’t have an intrinsically misanthropic and fundamentally negative view of humanity and the world.

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

@Econ_Marshall @MatthewSitman Ty Marshall!!

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

Me scoping out the scene before the defense 😎😎😎

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

Incredibly proud of my friend @MaxFoleyKeene, who defended his dissertation, "An Eco-Socialist-Civic Virtue: Democracy, Ethics, & Ecological Emancipation," at Brown today. There are few w/ whom I love to talk political theory, and life, as much as Max—congrats Dr. Foley-Keene!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter

[Max Foley-Keene @MaxFoleyKeene]

@melnickjeffrey1 As someone who goes to Fenway pretty regularly, I often reflect on how hard it is to locate any white people in attendance

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday