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Continue reading →: Paul Crider on Ayn Rand
Notablog readers should check out a critical essay on Liberal Currents by Paul Crider that discusses “Liberalism versus Reaction in Ayn Rand“. Paul writes on Facebook: Finally published my big essay on Ayn Rand. I’m very sympathetic to Rand and I encourage folks to see what people find so inspirational…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1938
Song of the Day: Oye Como Va, by Tito Puente, was first released in 1962 by the composer, but became a worldwide hit for Santana in 1971. The Mexican-American guitarist, Carlos Santana, led this song straight into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Grammy Hall of…
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Continue reading →: Pearls Before Swine: Two-Word Answers
I’ve been giving lots of two-word answers to folks of late, but not nearly as polite as these two. 🙂 Courtesy Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis
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Continue reading →: May the 4th Be With You
Okay, okay, I too have succumbed. 🙂 [and it’s also my 4th post of the day lol]
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1937
Song of the Day: 16/16 [YouTube link], composed by David Grisman, is featured on the 1978 album “Hot Dawg“, with a stellar line-up of musicians, including Grisman on lead mandolin, Mike Marshall on rhythm mandolin, Tony Rice on guitar, Eddie Gomez on bass, and Stephane Grappelli on violin. Lilting, melodic,…
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Continue reading →: Mutual Aid in an Urban Setting
With another H/T to my dear friend Walter Grinder, I wanted to highlight yet another article from Boston Review, this one by Nate File: “Detroiters Are Not Waiting to Be Saved“. The article highlights how Detroit activists have turned to forms of mutual aid to meet the needs of their…
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Continue reading →: Learning from Gramsci
With a H/T to my dear friend Walter Grinder, I wanted to share this article by Alan Wald on “Gramsci’s Gift“, which appeared in the April 2, 2022 issue of Boston Review. Wald’s article is a review of Jean-Yves Frétigné’s book, To Live is To Resist: The Life of Antonio…
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Continue reading →: “Roe, On the Edge”
It’s all over the news this morning. As David Leonhardt tells us in the New York Times: The Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion, according to a written draft of the justices’ decision obtained by Politico. Other publications have not confirmed the authenticity of…
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Continue reading →: Film: “We the Living” 80th Anniversary Preview
My friend Duncan Scott sent me this link to a preview of a newly restored 80th anniversary edition of the 1942 Italian film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s tragic novel, “We the Living”. This is, in my view, the finest film adaptation of any work by Rand. The description tells us:…
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Continue reading →: DWR (6): Market, State, and Anarchy
Today, the Center for a Stateless Society publishes an article by my very dear friend, Ryan Neugebauer: “Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective.” Though this is not strictly a part of the series I’ve dubbed “DWR” (“Dialogues with Ryan”), the article certainly evolved over a period of time…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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