Archives of Kyle Cupp
Would you support amending the Constitution to provide a federal safety net in food, housing, education, and medical care, with the following limitation: anyone who accepts that support would not be entitled to vote...
The election and has been decided and the world can rejoice.
A single vote may rarely make a difference for good or ill, but cumulatively votes obviously have practical consequence, and so I think we can reasonably speak of an ethics of voting that applies...
Alyssa Rosenberg pushes back against the idea of handing Joss Whedon the keys to the pop culture kingdom, arguing against the creator of Buffy and Firefly running the next Star Wars movie. According to...
With the prospect of Star Wars jumping to a light speed joy ride beyond Lucas’s watchful eye and tight control, and with yet another gritty action-packed retelling of a classic fairy tale on the...
A long, long time ago (in Internet time) I expressed my desire to see Star Wars re-imagined and remade. With the news today that Disney has bought Lucasfilm and plans to run and grow...
Claire Creffield, an atheist who finds that, sometimes, “invoking the concept of God seems a very compelling way indeed of doing justice to the strangeness, the beauty and the peril of our lives,” asks...
From Gadamer’s great Truth and Method: The pantheon of art is not a timeless present that presents itself to pure aesthetic consciousness, but the act of a mind and spirit that has collected and...
I expect to be fed a large helping of superlative self-idolizing rhetoric at presidential debates focused on foreign policy, and so I kept my gag reflect under control when hearing Obama describe the United...
Can we please, please cease and desist using the word post-modern to describe falsehood-devoted political campaigning? Broadly speaking, post-modern delineates an outlook that see truth as situated, not as immaterial. ‘Tis not the postmodernist...
