essays by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
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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 [...]
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04, 2024
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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 [...]
23
03, 2024
What Trump’s “Bloodbath” Remark Reveals
The U.S. media recently put aside their coverage of important stories at home and around the world to weigh in [...]
16
03, 2024
How Modern “Truth” Opposes Christianity
In "Revisiting the Idea of Truth" I discussed how Americans' abandonment of the ancient view of truth has destroyed rationality [...]