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What in the World Were They Thinking?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:55:00 +0000

For years the news has filled with reports of behaviors by people in influential positions that make the rest of usscratch our heads and say, "What in the world were they thinking?" In some cases, they explain their thought processes, but often as not they don't, at least not in a clear and satisfactory way. [...]

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Welcome to Topsy-Turvydom

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:36:07 +0000

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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Can Thinking Really Be Taught?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 14:25:32 +0000

My recent essay, “The Decline of Thinking in America,” included the recommendation that schools should change their emphasis from “telling students what to think to teaching them how to think.” After reading the essay, a friend of mine asked me about that statement, I answered, and an interesting discussion ensued. Here is how it went: Friend: Can anyone [...]

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Why Aren’t America’s Problems Being Solved?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:21:39 +0000

The United States has had a border problem for decades and both political parties have blamed each other, promised to solve it if elected, failed to do anything about it when elected, and then blamed the other side for their failure. The same is true of problems with the health care system, the imbalance of [...]

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Ideas That Are Destroying America

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 25 May 2019 17:27:09 +0000

Many writers have lamented America’s moral and intellectual decline but few have identified the cause. I submit that it is the cluster of ideas known as Relativism. First popularized by J. J. Rousseau in the eighteenth century as Romanticism, these ideas were expressed in the mid-twentieth century in the Humanistic Psychology of Carl Rogers and [...]

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