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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2077
Song of the Day: Lipstick features the words and music of Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Nathan Perez, Andrew Wansel, and Charlie Puth, who celebrates his 32nd birthday today. At 92 beats per minute, what DJs used to call a “sleaze beat“, the song sports a sensual, sultry old-school groove and is…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2076
Song of the Day: DJ Play a Christmas Song, words and music by Sarah Hudson, Brett McLaughlin, and James Abrahart, among others, is featured on the 2023 Cher album, “Christmas“. I first saw Cher perform this song at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade [YouTube link]. It’s hard to “believe” that…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2075
Song of the Day: My Time to Fly [YouTube link], composed by NJ-native Harriet Goldberg and featuring saxophonist Billy Novick, is probably one of the most heard pieces of music in the world. Have you ever been put on hold? And this jazzy musical ditty gets looped OVER AND OVER…
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Continue reading →: It’s been a year …
Elizabeth Sciabarra: September 2, 1952 – November 26, 2022 It’s been a year—since your suffering ended. It’s been a year—and I miss you so deeply. It’s been a year—but the gift of your love is eternal. It’s been a year—my Bitty, and I will always love you. Elizabeth Ann SciabarraSeptember…
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Continue reading →: Happy Thanksgiving
At a time when so many people in this world are suffering and in the depths of despair, I count my blessings for all the love and support of family and friends that have gotten me through one of the most difficult years of my life. My best wishes to…
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Continue reading →: Farewell, Aristos
Having served on the Board of Trustees of the Aristos Foundation for many years, I would like to report that Aristos: An Online Review of the Arts has finished its long publication history. Founded by Louis Torres in 1982 as a print publication, it ran from 1982 to 1997. Michelle…
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Continue reading →: Boettke on Lavoie
The fall 2023 issue of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy (vol. 28, no. 2), focuses attention on “Underappreciated Economists”. One essay that resonated with me is written by my friend and colleague, Peter Boettke: “Don Lavoie: The Failures of Socialist Central Planning.” Boettke is in a unique…
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Continue reading →: SNL Goes Roman
After my post on the “Roman Empire Obsession?“, I laughed out loud at this “Saturday Night Live” skit this past weekend, featuring host Jason Momoa.
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Continue reading →: JFK 60
This essay also appears on Medium. Sixty years ago, this week, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Since that time, there has been a never-ending debate over who was responsible for JFK’s death: Lee Harvey Oswald? The CIA? The Mafia? Cuban Exiles? All of them? None of…
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Continue reading →: But Have You Read the Book?
I don’t read fiction. Okay, let me soften the shock. I used to read a lot of fiction throughout my pre-college and undergraduate years, and most of that was connected to literature courses. Those readings ran the gamut from William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe to…
