articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about culture
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06, 2021
America’s Flawed View of Truth, Part 2
Socrates Part 1 discussed the error of believing that truth is within us so we don’t need to [...]
5
06, 2021
America’s Flawed View of Truth
A discussion of truth may seem too academic to have any practical value, but it really isn’t. In fact, our [...]
29
05, 2021
How America Has Changed
We are all immersed in our culture, and that immersion alters our beliefs and values to some extent over time, often [...]
8
05, 2021
A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma
The title is borrowed from Winston Churchill. Though he coined the phrase in reference to another matter, it describes perfectly [...]
24
04, 2021
The Grave Danger of Good Intentions
You may be wondering, “How can good intentions be dangerous? After all, good is the very opposite of evil, and goodness [...]
20
03, 2021
Goodbye Logic, R.I.P.
Logic may be defined as a system of thinking that produces reasonable decisions and judgments about problems and issues large [...]
6
03, 2021
The Burden of Ideas
It is fashionable to believe that ideas are quiet, ethereal things that can do no harm. “What others think won’t [...]
20
02, 2021
The Historic Problem of Race in America
Frederick Douglass White people’s awareness of the evil of slavery has for decades taken the form of developing [...]
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02, 2021
Overanalyzing Kindness
Since the election many of my liberal friends seem to have overcome their compulsion to lecture me on what a horrible [...]
6
02, 2021
Orwell’s Prophetic Novel, 1984
George Orwell In 1949 George Orwell published a tale of a totalitarian country in which self-appointed elites gained [...]