articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about culture
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04, 2013
The War Against Sexist Language
Washington state governor Jay Inslee recently signed a bill that goes a long way toward ending biased language in state [...]
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04, 2013
Let’s Stop Clinging To Nonsense
In April of 2013, Tulane professor and talk-show host Melissa Harris-Perry, made the following remark on camera: We have never invested [...]
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04, 2013
Wages, Capitalism, And Morality: Part II
(Note: Part I documented that the minimum wage harms the very people it is designed to help and the popular alternative—letting capitalism [...]
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04, 2013
Wages, Capitalism, And Morality: Part I
It is commonly believed that fairness demands a certain level of wage be guaranteed to all workers. That is the [...]
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03, 2013
American Catholics And Social Justice
“Social justice” is at the center of most political activism in contemporary America. It has provided arguments for the expansion [...]
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02, 2013
The Catholic Church And Same-Sex Marriage
As of January 2013, same-sex marriage was legal in nine states and the District of Columbia, as well as in [...]
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02, 2013
Minding Your Pronouns
It was the early 1990s and I had just finished a lecture to a group of educators on the teaching [...]
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02, 2013
The Importance Of Making Distinctions
Something odd has been going on in public discourse. More and more commentators are ignoring important and in some cases [...]
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01, 2013
Why Gun Control Is Not The Solution
You won’t learn it from mainstream media coverage, but the idea that tighter gun control will cure the nation’s epidemic [...]
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12, 2012
Self-Congratulation And Christmas
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, people sent friends and family Christmas cards with personal messages. Not [...]