Common Sense Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/common-sense/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:55:49 +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 Common Sense Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/common-sense/ 32 32 Welcome to Topsy-Turvydom https://mind-at-work.com/welcome-to-topsy-turvydom/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:36:07 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5156 Erika López Prater was an adjunct professor of Art History at Hamline University. Her course syllabus included a warning that the art to be discussed contained images of religious figures. She also advised students that if they had any concerns about the images, they should discuss them with her. (No student did so.) Furthermore, on [...]

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]]> The Culture of Absurdity https://mind-at-work.com/the-culture-of-absurdity/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:52 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4963 The battle for social dominance is over and the results are clear—common sense has been routed and absurdity is savoring the victory. The signs are everywhere. Here are some of them: Shutting down American fuel industries to help the climate, then buying fuel from countries that hurt it even more. Permitting millions of people to [...]

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]]> I’ve Been Wondering . . . https://mind-at-work.com/ive-been-wondering/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:21:11 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4628 Rodin's The Thinker Why did President Biden as his first action in office shut down the XL pipeline, which eliminated over ten thousand jobs, ended the energy independence that Trump achieved, and made us once again dependent on Saudi-Arabian oil? Did he not see, or did no one tell him, that his action [...]

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]]> Insights from G. K. Chesterton https://mind-at-work.com/insights-from-g-k-chesterton/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:11:51 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4002 Given that Gilbert Keith Chesterton (GKC) died in 1936, some readers may be inclined to ask, “How could his views be of any value in 2020?” He himself provided the answer to that question when he wrote this in Orthodoxy (1908): “An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a [...]

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]]> America’s Troubled Culture https://mind-at-work.com/americas-troubled-culture/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:48:30 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2082 American culture is infected with Relativism, the belief that everyone creates his or her own truth. In other words, that people don’t only have a right to their opinion—their opinions are necessarily right! At first thought, this notion seems eminently democratic and fair. It makes each individual the arbiter of fact and fiction, truth and [...]

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