Archives of Kyle Cupp
Mitt Romney’s “not elegantly stated” remarks expressed a disposition that’s not exclusive to him or to his base. As I wrote previously, disdain for otherness–a deep-seated and disordering belief that being other is bad–remains...
Yesterday President Obama, in a 30 minute campaign speech in Las Vegas, idolized the United States as the much needed “one indispensable power in the world,” demonstrating once again that the fantasy describing him...
Believe me, there are MANY ways to fairly criticize Obama. But saying he’s on an “apology tour” or is like Jimmy Carter is deeply insane. — David Sessions (@davidsess) September 12, 2012 I agree...
Today’s proposition courtesy of the eternally-recurring(ly)-misinterpreted Friedrich Nietzsche: “But everything has become: there are no eternal facts, just as there are no absolute truths. Consequently what is needed from now on is historical philosophizing,...
Critics of the pro-life position will at times point to the seeming inconsistency of pro-lifers who support laws to prohibit abortion while opposing policies that would help create conditions beneficial to mothers and their...
Conor P. Williams praised Michelle Obama’s DNC speech for combating the ugly belief that the president is something other than a real American. “It was a speech that demanded the president’s recognition as one...
My front page post on the vice of lust prompted some discussion on what makes something immoral. A few commenters expressed the view that morality applies only to actions, which, if strictly true, would...
By which I mean thoughts about lust, of course. My latest is on the front page. Because you write about what you know…
As you’ve probably heard by now, an iconic priest named Father Benedict Groeschel depicted clerics involved in sexual abuse as the victims of seductive youngsters in a now-removed interview with the National Catholic Register. ...
