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Continue reading →: Brooklyn Tech – Class of 1984 Prom Memories
This weekend is the Brooklyn Tech High School Homecoming. Back on June 6, 1984, I was privileged to provide a mixtape for Prom Night at Les Mouches, a dance club in Manhattan, for the Brooklyn Tech High School Class of 1984. (Yeah, I had connections with Ski! 😉 ) I…
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Continue reading →: Molinari Article Now Available!
My reply to Gus diZerega’s essay, “Turning the Tables: The Pathologies and Unrealized Promise of Libertarianism,” which appeared in the Autumn 2019 issue of Molinari Review, is now available online as a pdf. The article explores various dialectical libertarian themes. Check it out here!
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Continue reading →: Sassy 100 – Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme
This is a postscript to my Medium essay, “Sassy 100: Celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centennial“! Today, March 27, 2024, to mark the actual date of the Sassy Centennial, an audio recording of Sarah Vaughan’s appearance with Mel Torme on The Merv Griffin Show, which aired on Metromedia Channel 5 in…
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Continue reading →: Applied Austrian Economics
Today, I’d like to bring attention to two videos that deal with topics surrounding the Austrian school of economics. The first is the Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture given by my long-time friend and colleague, Ed Younkins: “Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists” [YouTube link]. Ed is particularly qualified to have…
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Continue reading →: Sassy 100: Celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centennial
Next Wednesday, on March 27, 2024, we mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of legendary jazz vocalist, Sarah Vaughan. My article in tribute to the Sarah Vaughan Centennial makes its debut on Medium today: “Sassy 100: Celebrating the Sarah Vaughan Centennial.” Just as important, today is the debut…
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Continue reading →: Practical Politics for Left-Libertarians
As of this date, despite the presence of various third-party candidates in the 2024 election cycle, it is virtually inevitable that either Donald Trump or Joe Biden is going to serve another term in the White House. But there are other political visions that are awaiting an audience. As an…
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Continue reading →: Looking Back 55 Years: Our Cat Buttons
On March 17, 1969, a neighbor’s cat gave birth to a litter of kittens and among them was our cat Buttons. He was the kitten we chose and in June of that year, he came to live with us. He was with us until March 16, 1987, when he passed…
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Continue reading →: Congrats to the NYU Violets
Congratulations to the women of the undefeated NYU Violets for winning their first Division III NCAA title since 1997!
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Continue reading →: Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand 25
Twenty-five years ago this past February, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand was released by Pennsylvania State University Press, as part of their series “Re-reading the Canon.” To my knowledge, it was the first time that Ayn Rand had been included in a series of volumes on thinkers of the Western…
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Continue reading →: Sifting through the Noise
We all face the problem of “epistemic flooding,” in which we are overwhelmed with information through online algorithms that appeal to our biases. Whether from the right or the left, it is incumbent on us to be diligent in our approach to information and how it’s presented. Being critically engaged…
