Kevin Duffy is an American writer living in Spain.
Posts by Kevin Duffy
March 21, 2024
When contemporary transhumanists like Yuval Noah Harari speak about future migrations and amalgamations of human consciousness, they generally preface their ideas with outright dismissals of religion and the truths it may offer.
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November 03, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling in
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), which invalidated the use of race as a criterion for college admissions, dominated several summer news cycles and prompted no shortage of opinion pieces and responses.
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October 27, 2023
Set in the opening decade of the current millennium, Elliot Ackerman’s
Halcyon is a tale based on many alternative historical events—most notably, that Al Gore won the 2000 election, oversaw the capture of Osama bin Laden shortly after the 9/11 attacks, declined to launch into the Iraq conflict, and, most relevantly, funded advanced medical research that made possible the book’s central premise: the ability to revivify the dead.
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September 07, 2023
On June 16, some 2,000 people gathered outside Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium to protest the team’s having chosen to honor, on the field before that night’s game, a group whose core mission and purpose is the open mockery and parody of Catholicism.
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February 16, 2023
At the beginning of the final episode of
Derry Girls, the British Channel 4 TV series that ran for three seasons and that was also carried by Netflix in the U.S.,
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January 10, 2023
With the December 31 passing of Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church, Christianity, and the world lost one of the most significant and insightful minds of the last century. Certainly, within the Church, Joseph Ratzinger was among the most influential and esteemed theologians of the second half of the 20th century, all the way through his pontificate in the early 21st, to include the period of the Second Vatican Council, to which he was an important adviser.
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December 07, 2022
On August 26, 2021, Stuart Scheller posted a video on LinkedIn and Facebook in which he strongly criticized senior U.S. military and civilian leaders for the embarrassing way in which the country had withdrawn forces from Afghanistan in the preceding days.
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October 27, 2022
In a cultural landscape that is often hostile—or at best indifferent—to religion, a popular and widely lauded novel whose plot focuses not only on matters of faith but also a main character whose worldview and identity is shaped entirely by his Catholicism is a rare occurrence.
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September 21, 2022
The idea of personal identity and sentience in artificial intelligences (AI) is not exactly new territory for the science fiction genre: from
Neuromancer to
Westworld, writers frequently contemplate the ideas of agency and moral status in close-to-human, artificially engineered agents and environments.
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September 01, 2022
For regular listeners of the
Triggernometry YouTube podcast, much of the content and tone of co-host Konstantin Kisin’s just-published nonfiction book,
An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, will come as no surprise.
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