essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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07, 2020
Insights from G. K. Chesterton
Given that Gilbert Keith Chesterton (GKC) died in 1936, some readers may be inclined to ask, “How could his views [...]
18
07, 2020
Government’s Unintended Consequences
The official summary of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) “does not address every detail of each [...]
11
07, 2020
Catholicism: Can the Decline Be Reversed?
That the Catholic Church has been losing numbers for decades has been well established. Why the loss has occurred, however, [...]
27
06, 2020
Restoring Reason in American Culture
I recently discussed why social chaos is spreading across the U.S. The answer, I argued, is that the movement to [...]
20
06, 2020
Understanding Our Growing Social Chaos
An anonymous commentary made the rounds of the Internet before it vanished. It pointed out a number of absurdities in [...]
13
06, 2020
The Bishops’ Flawed View of Racial Problems
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual dioceses were quick to respond to the murder of George Floyd and [...]
30
05, 2020
Advice to a Disenchanted Catholic
A reader recently offered this (paraphrased) comment on an essay of mine: “Your essay and others like it leave me [...]
16
05, 2020
The Gift of Appreciation
I recently wrote about the consequences of the Covid19 crisis—both the self-sacrificing good works it prompted and, in sharp contrast, [...]
9
05, 2020
Crises Have Consequences
Covid-19 came to America and the rest of the world without warning and changed our lives in ways never imagined [...]
2
05, 2020
The Growing Threat of Socialism
Friedrich von Hayek Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Hungarian Economist, Philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner [...]