-
Continue reading →: Happy New Year!
A Happy and Healthy New Year—full of love and promise—to all my family and friends!
-
Continue reading →: TCM Remembers
Turner Classic Movies has an end-of-year tradition of running a robust remembrance of those talented people who have died and whose cinematic legacy lives on. If only the folks who run the Academy Awards could be as thoughtful in their annual “In Memoriam” retrospective!
-
Continue reading →: What’s In a Name?
Many of you know that I’m half-Greek and half-Sicilian. I’ve often joked that my mother’s parents were born in Olympia, Greece—home of the gods and goddesses, while my father’s parents were born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily—home of the godfathers. I like to think of myself as a Brooklyn Dialectical Synthesis,…
-
Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2242
Song of the Day: Bob Dylan’s Christmas Waltz [YouTube link], composed and performed by Hayden Jones, offers a lovely melody that I have used as the backdrop for a mini-slideshow of this year’s necessarily scaled-down Christmas decorations for my apartment. I have to thank my friend Ryan Neugebauer for introducing…
-
Continue reading →: Berklee Holiday Cheer
This is a really sweet video, featuring students from Berklee College of Music, called “December“, based on the classic Earth, Wind, & Fire hit, “September“. Lots of holiday cheer!
-
Continue reading →: First NYC Snow in 305 Days!
NYC is getting its first snowfall of the season—the first time we’ve had over one inch of snow since February 11-12, 2025. This is nowhere near the record streak of no snowfall for 701 days, which stretched from early 2022 to mid-January 2024! Tonight marks the beginning of Hanukkah, the…
-
Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2241
Song of the Day: Chim Chim Che-ree was written by the Sherman Brothers for the 1964 Disney musical, “Mary Poppins” and received the Oscar for Best Original Song. Along with the kids, it is sung in the film by Dick Van Dyke, who turns 100 today and Julie Andrews, who…
-
Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2240
Song of the Day: It’s a Wonderful World features the words and music of Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, and Johnny Watson. This song appears on the 1961 Frank Sinatra album, “Sinatra Swings” (originally titled “Swing Along with Me“). The album was arranged and conducted by the great Billy May. One…
-
Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2239
Song of the Day: Mr. Bojangles, words and music by Jerry Jeff Walker, has been recorded by many artists through the years. It became a signature tune for Sammy Davis Jr., who was born on this date one hundred years ago today. The song appears on the 1972 album, “Portrait…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
Subscribe to Notablog Below!
Donate
Support the work of the author on Stripe (sponsored by Matthew Cappabianca)
Follow the author on:
Facebook
Bluesky
YouTube
Contact the author at:
chris DOT sciabarra AT nyu DOT edu
Acknowledgement
Thanks to Peter Saint-Andre for setting up this site!
Archive
Homepage
Books
- Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
- Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical
- Marx, Hayek, and Utopia
- Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (co-editor with Mimi Reisel Gladstein)
- The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom (co-editor with Roger E. Bissell and Edward W. Younkins)
Monographs & Journals
- Ayn Rand: Her Life and Thought
- Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation
- The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Other Writings
- Published Writings (Complete List)
- Essays
- SOLO HQ/Free Radical Articles
- Liberty & Power Group Blog Posts
- Doctoral Dissertation
Miscellaneous
- About the Author
- Forthcoming
- Dialectics & Liberty Cyberseminar
- Gallery
- Sci-Links (Sciabarra’s Links/Blogroll)
Notablog 