Archives of Kyle Cupp
Kevin Drum captures what I take to be the thinking of the Obama administration regarding conscience protections in the HHS mandate: “Americans don’t have any problem with contraception. American Catholics don’t have any problem...
There’s a joke out there that the Obama administration has been able to do what the pope could never dream of doing: bringing almost all the U.S. bishops into agreement. As of now, 169...
Tod Kelly makes elitist art snobbery look good. I’m something of a snob myself when it comes to the arts, and so it should come as no surprise that I agree with his case...
Anti-choicers are trying to marginalize comprehensive health care for women basically to put us in our place, to demote us from the status of people and return us to the status of objects. […]...
I gather Alex Knapp is not overly fond of prequels: For reasons surpassing my understanding, current pop culture has just become entranced with prequels, prologues, and unnecessary exposition. What writers today seem to have...
My liege lord E.D. calls Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim “quite possibly the greatest role-playing video game ever made,” and after reading his review and watching the trailer, I can see why. Alas, the gods...
Alyssa Rosenberg makes a smart observation about A Song of Ice and Fire: In fact, the whole series is really about what happens when you try to assert purely rational governance in a world...
Now that this blog has a new home and some new readers, I account it high time to recapitulate what I mean by alterity and why I choose, at the risk of provoking some...
Drawing from contemporary scholarship, historian Cullen Murphy argues that the Inquisition should be understood as a harbinger of modernity rather than as a relic of the medieval world: Here’s the central question: why did...
Over at Vox Nova, my other home in the blogosphere, Mark Gordon raises the idea of a Christian democratic political movement as a potential home for Christians disaffected with the Republican and Democratic parties. ...
