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The Source Of Americans’ Hatred

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:23:27 +0000

Why is there so much hatred in America today? The main cause, I submit, is that the communications media have encouraged it. That wasn’t always the case. In our grandparents’ day such encouragement was almost nonexistent. The TV (or radio) news consisted of reporters describing events without offering their opinions, which were prohibited by the journalistic [...]

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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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The Sad Legacy of the Self-Esteem Movement

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:12:48 +0000

It has been almost sixty years since the Gospel of Self-Esteem was first preached in America and quickly planted in the nation’s schools. Since then it has impacted three generations of Americans. Here is a summary of the message they have been taught to live by: Self-esteem is necessary for psychological health and personal achievement. [...]

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The Roots of Divisiveness

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:09:12 +0000

Divisiveness means “tending to cause disagreement or dissension.” The word is interesting because it illustrates the very condition it describes—people can’t agree on how to pronounce it! Lately, there has been much blather about the condition, particularly concerning politics, but most of it boils down to “the other guys started it.” I believe the condition [...]

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The Continuing Decline of Journalism

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:07:12 +0000

A number of authors have written probing criticisms of modern journalism, notably Bernard Goldberg, James Fallows, and Bob Kohn. Now award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson adds The Smear, an insightful account of the most recent, shameful, and dangerous episode in journalism’s decline. What the public receives as news today, she explains, is in fact propaganda crafted [...]

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