Archives of Kyle Cupp
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...
Not being the sort of voter who decides am0ng presidential candidates based primarily on their stances on issues, I am far from ever being a single issue voter. I could justly be called a...
A few years ago when my wife and I lived in an apartment complex, our next door neighbor, a retired elderly lady, weakly knocked on our door. We opened it to find that she...
Critics of the government facilitating heath care often worry that taking some or all of the health care field out of the realm of private enterprise will lower the degree of innovation for which...
A question for discussion: assuming that not every unethical or immoral action by another person is my business, even if I am a witness to it, is there a principle I can use to...
Writing at The Stone, Christine Overall wants us to give careful ethical reflection to the question of whether to have children: If we fail to acknowledge that the decision of whether to parent or...
Several readers of yesterday’s post–on the topic of lying to expose some truth–raised the practice of undercover investigations as a counter example to my thesis, asking if I would consider undercover work unethical for...
True story: some months ago my wife purchased some bedding sheets from one of the nation’s largest off-price retail stores. I won’t say which or give you a hint like “character on Friends” because...
For reasons I’d rather not guess, the Texas Right to Life mailed us the above advertisement. When you flip it over, you see it’s an endorsement of Scott Turner for the TX State House. ...
Not much, says Julian Sanchez, and he’s right. Over the past decade, I’ve moved away from religious faith as an explanation for why the universe exists, why it is the way it is, and...
