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Continue reading →: Decision 2024 (I): From Bullets to Ballots
Long before alleged gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks took shots at former President Donald J. Trump, I was slated to begin a series of articles on “Decision 2024” today. Since the Republican National Convention is going ahead as planned, and Trump will be officially crowned the GOP’s nominee later this week,…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2129
Song of the Day: Summer Song, words and music by Dave Brubeck and Iola Brubeck, first appeared on the 1957 album, “Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A.“, featuring the Dave Brubeck Quartet, with alto saxophone great Paul Desmond. In the early 1960s, jazz icon Louis Armstrong recorded a vocal arrangement with…
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Continue reading →: Hayek, Bates, and Utopia
I’ve been enjoying a series of articles by my friend, Winton Bates, in which he has discussed my work (see here and here). In his latest essay, Winton asks: “Can Utopian Thinking Be Dialectical?” Winton raises important questions about the nature and role of utopia in political philosophy. As Winton…
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Continue reading →: Missed the Show
Every so often, when I’m not posting “Songs of the Day” or “I Love Brooklyn!” videos or my escapades on the famed Coney Island Cyclone, when I’m not writing essays on the need for dialectical critical thinking styles or the culture wars and the collapse of American politics, I sit…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2128
Song of the Day: Saturday in the Park, words and music by Robert Lamm, appears on “Chicago V“, the 1972 album by Chicago—one of the finest popular fusion bands of its day. With its crisp instrumental arrangement and jazzy bridge, the song became a Top Ten Hit. Lamm was inspired…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2127
Song of the Day: Deja Vu (But Worse), produced by The Gregory Brothers, featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic, is not a summer song per se, but it lampoons a summer event: The Great Debate last Thursday between Trump and Biden. To those who feel as if this is Deja Vu All…
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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…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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