Archives of Kyle Cupp
Introducing Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the GOP convention yesterday, Speaker John Boehner said, “He’s a man who knows that the preferential option for the poor doesn’t translate into a preferential option for big government.” ...
I’ve begun a series at Vox Nova about the postmodern quality of my religious faith. If you scratch your head at my attempt to embrace both postmodern philosophy and orthodox Roman Catholicism, this series...
Today’s proposition comes from Gabriel Marcel: A community is only possible when beings acknowledge that they are mutually different while existing together in their differences. Was he correct? Discuss.
My stance on secularism has just recently evolved. I explain how on the front page.
I’m so glad that our local public library now carries DVDs of the old 80s Transformers cartoon; the newer versions feature the nauseating combination of whiny robots and even whinier humans. And I just...
Questions: Are there objective criteria for determining if and when nascent life becomes a person whose life is worthy of respect? If so or if not, how do we know this? Please discuss. With...
Tom Van Dyke, concerned that the road I’m traveling leads to skepticism and nihilism, asked me to state for the record whether anything is self-evident. I stand by my answer–I’m not sure–but I’d like...
The Declaration of Independence begins with a bit of bad philosophy: to wit, positing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
Proposition: One must make an act of faith to think about anything at all. In other words, one must believe in order to understand because all understanding is based on unprovable axioms (e.g., the...
Listening to Michael Brendan Dougherty explain to Zack Beauchamp why he doesn’t believe in human rights put me in mind of Alasdair MacIntyre’s argument in After Virtue that “there are no such rights, and...
