essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
27
07, 2024
Harmony Is Wonderful, But How Is It Achieved?
Now that the election is growing very close, the messaging from both parties is increasingly focused on some version of, [...]
20
07, 2024
Our Shrinking Attention Spans
Recently, in an essay titled "Escaping Media Control" I cited research on the length of TV commercials in 2020, the [...]
12
07, 2024
Escaping Media Control
G. K. Chesterton once commented on his experience of returning home after a trip to another country. He suddenly saw [...]
7
07, 2024
Understanding Attitudes, Part 2
Part 1 of this essay explained how identifying and evaluating other people’s attitudes can increase our appreciation of people with good attitudes [...]
18
05, 2024
Was America’s Decline Planned?
Rodin's The Thinker Given the increasingly destructive things that have been happening in America in recent decades, it [...]
11
05, 2024
The Soros Effect
George Soros is a controversial financier accused by conservatives of undermining entire economies and defended by progressives as a misunderstood [...]
4
05, 2024
Nonsense Is STILL Destroying America
Warning: Nonsense is Destroying America was published thirty years ago, in 1994. I introduced it with these words: "Books warn [...]
20
04, 2024
What’s Wrong with Bishop Seitz’s “Look at the Border”
In What's Wrong with the World, G. K. Chesterton observed that "In the last analysis most common things will be [...]
13
04, 2024
6
04, 2024
Revisiting “Death by a Thousand Slurs”
I published "Death by a Thousand Slurs" on January 10th, 2018. It focused on Trump's performance during his first year [...]