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Continue reading →: DWR (10): Free Will vs. Determinism: A Dialectical Path Forward?
One of the topics that makes my brain squirm is the issue of free will. I consider myself neither an expert nor even a truly qualified interlocutor on this topic. So much has been said from every perspective over the course of centuries on this issue, and in the light…
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Continue reading →: JARS: 2023 Grand Finale Live!
The grand finale volume to The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies went live today on the site of the Scholarly Publishing Collective. Check it out here. The Introduction to the issue is Open Access. Unlike the print edition, the e-platform version is the only one with full-color images! The 2023…
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Continue reading →: Elizabeth Sciabarra Tribute at BTHS Homecoming
This was presented on Day 1 of the Brooklyn Tech Homecoming … in honor of my sister. It brought tears to my eyes. I miss her so much. Thanks to Iris Cumberbatch for recording this and putting it on Facebook (video link).
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Continue reading →: Ryan Takes on 83 For Truth
My friend Ryan Neugebauer took on “83 for Truth” in this traveling video. As he writes in his preface to “Did 83 For Truth Convert Me to Christianity?“: I called the 83 For Truth hotline in the United States (833-678-7884). I tried to speak in terms of things they could…
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Continue reading →: DWR (9): Woke Warriors and Anti-Woke Crusaders: The Ominous Parallels
This Notablog post is another installment in my ongoing “Dialogues with Ryan” series, an index to which can be found here. Ryan Neugebauer is a very dear friend. I recently highlighted his wonderful interview on The Enragés [YouTube link]. In considering the topic at hand of “Woke” and “Anti-Woke”, let…
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Continue reading →: JARS: The 2023 Grand Finale Arrives!
I am delighted to announce the publication of a special blockbuster 2023 double issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies that constitutes the final volume in our twenty-three-year history. As I write in the introduction to this very special issue: In 2020, when JARS celebrated its twentieth anniversary, I…
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Continue reading →: A Celebration of Ski
A memorial service and celebration of the life of my sister, Elizabeth Ann Sciabarra (aka “Ski”) has been announced by the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. It has been scheduled for May 6, between the hours of 3 pm and 5 pm. It will take place in the Leonard Riggio ’58…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2041
Song of the Day: The Fabelmans (“Mitzi’s Dance”) [YouTube link] was composed by John Williams for the 2022 autobiographical Steven Spielberg-directed film. I have no clue if this soundtrack will win in the Best Original Score category at the 95th Annual Academy Awards tonight, but it’s still worth noting that…
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Continue reading →: Spider-Man … Only in New York
Check out this sweet “Time Out” story about kids writing to Spider-Man, long after his “address” was published in 1989! It was also featured on WABC-TV Eyewitness News here.
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Continue reading →: A Review of a Review of a Companion—to a Big Book
Having mentioned the Center for a Stateless Society earlier today, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the challenging essays that my friend Kevin Carson, a senior fellow at C4SS, has been posting for eons. As a coeditor of The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom, I…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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