essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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 [...]
14
03, 2021
A Perfect Theological Storm
A Perfect Storm is defined as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of [movements].” A Perfect [...]
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 [...]
27
02, 2021
A Jesuit Magazine’s Disrespect of the Dead
The death of Rush Limbaugh on February 17, 2021 was reported around the world. The headlines in mainstream publications were [...]
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 [...]
13
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 [...]
30
01, 2021
Understanding the Division Over Trump
Why does one half the country deplore Donald Trump while the other half esteems him? As one who began on [...]
23
01, 2021
American Culture’s Unholy Trinity
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a profound thinker and his arguments were rooted in common sense. [...]
16
01, 2021
No Vaccine for Trump Derangement Syndrome
Three years before the plague known as Covid19 began, another plague infected millions of Americans. Known as Trump Derangement Syndrome [...]