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Continue reading →: Winton Bates on Dialectics
I’ve highlighted the work of Winton Bates before on Notablog. Today, on his Freedom and Flourishing blog, Winton asks: “Is it helpful to adopt a dialectical approach to problem definition?” Utilizing my understanding of dialectics as the art of context-keeping, Winton offers interesting examples of how various people, in their…
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Continue reading →: Stonewall and the Meaning of Pride
This essay also appears on Medium. In the wee hours of this night, 55 years ago today, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, for the umpteenth time, harassing, arresting, and brutalizing its patrons. As the night wore on, the patrons began to…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2126
Song of the Day: Lovely One, words and music by Randy Jackson and Michael Jackson, appeared on the 1980 album “Triumph“, the fourteenth studio album of The Jacksons. This funky track hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Fifteen years ago today, Michael Jackson died. MJ’s memorable…
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Continue reading →: Therapy for Radicals
Ryan Neugebauer and I have coauthored a new article, “Therapy for Radicals,” which appears on the site of Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS). This essay takes its inspiration from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in exploring various practices that are indispensable for those who seek fundamental social change. Our…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2125
Song of the Day: Walking on Sunshine, words and music by Kimberly Rew, was first released in 1983 for the eponymous debut album of Katrina and the Waves. Unrelated to the Eddy Grant song featured yesterday, this song was re-recorded for the group’s 1985 self-titled album and became a Top…
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Continue reading →: Superman II vs. Superman II
I was always a big fan of the 1978 film version of “Superman”, starring the late Christopher Reeve. I saw it in theaters when it first came out and loved both the film and Reeve in the title role. Besides a stellar cast that also included Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2124
Song of the Day: Walking on Sunshine features the words and music of Eddy Grant, and was the title song to his third studio album, released in 1979. In 1982, Rockers Revenge remade the song and it went to #1 on Billboard‘s Hot Dance Club Play chart. Check out the…
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Continue reading →: Fireworks Kickoff in Coney Island!
This summer’s Coney Island Fireworks began tonight on the first full day of summer! And tomorrow is the 42nd Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade. The fireworks kick off every Friday night at around 9:45 pm (though tonight it was delayed due to the Brooklyn Cyclones game going into the 10th…
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Continue reading →: Patrick Alexander, RIP
I have had a long and successful relationship with Pennsylvania State University Press (PSUP). Under the direction of the great Sandy Thatcher, the press published the first edition of my book, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, in 1995. In 1999, Mimi Gladstein and I coedited Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand,…
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Continue reading →: “I Love Brooklyn”: Sheepshead Bay & Manhattan Beach (Song of the Day #2123)
Song of the Day: Manhattan Beach [YouTube link], composed by John Philip Sousa, was written in 1893, as a tribute to Manhattan Beach, which—for those not in the know—is located in Brooklyn, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, Sheepshead Bay to the north, and Brighton Beach to…
