Echoes on the Road
“Adapting Marx, human beings make job choices – but not in circumstances of their choosing. This isn’t consumer choice in some idealized marketplace – it’s the product of an underlying political struggle. And it’s...
Archives of Kyle Cupp
“Adapting Marx, human beings make job choices – but not in circumstances of their choosing. This isn’t consumer choice in some idealized marketplace – it’s the product of an underlying political struggle. And it’s...
“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon. I would...
“The sound of the air blasts rolled down the hillside and over the fields. With never a pause, tiny figures in gray next to each gun quickly reloaded. Alessandro’s infatuation with Janet was overwhelmed...
“Let us beware of that caricature of an economist who, watching people cheerfully disporting themselves in their suburban allotments, thinks he has said everything there is to say when he observes that this is...
“Every story is a play of at least three persons (author/actor/addressee) whose outcome is never final. That is why narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetic responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become...
“The performance of a play, like that of a ritual, cannot simply be detached from the play itself, as if it were something that is not part of its essential being, but is as...
“It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised. Tom sang most of the time, but...
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love upon earth: the Blessed Sacrament…..There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the...
“For the established universe of discourse bears throughout the marks of the specific modes of domination, organization, and manipulation to which the members of society are subjected. People depend for their living on bosses...
“What are we willing to suffer so that love might heal the wounds of humanity and transform them into the glory of God? Only when we can exit our private lives and enter into...