Causes of Divisiveness Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/causes-of-divisiveness/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:03:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Causes of Divisiveness Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/causes-of-divisiveness/ 32 32 On Reading and Listening https://mind-at-work.com/on-reading-and-listening/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:03:44 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3183                 Sir Francis Bacon In a recent essay I chastised the Florida Bishops Conference for adding a condemnation of contraception to their condemnation of abortion. My view was that the addition weakened their argument with many Catholics and even more non-Catholics. Three readers responded to the [...]

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]]> Why Such Divisiveness? https://mind-at-work.com/why-such-divisiveness/ Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:13:04 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2413 We hear much lamentation about “divisiveness” today and the cause is generally identified as one political party or both. But the main cause is neither political party, though both contribute to the problem. In fact, the cause is not any person or group but instead two intertwined ideas that became embedded in mass culture decades [...]

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