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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…
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Continue reading →: Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter!
A very Happy Easter to all my Eastern Orthodox family and friends! Easter Eggs Complete!
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Continue reading →: Easter Egg Surprise!
So we began the process of boiling our Easter Eggs this morning, and I decided to take one out for a rare omelette with my sister’s roasted peppers. Alas, I did not know how rare this would be! Lo and behold … a double yolk! There is a one-in-one thousand…
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Continue reading →: Holy Week Memories
This date, April 21, has special significance to me. On this date in 1974, I was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn—the same hospital in which I was born—to undergo life-saving intestinal by-pass surgery for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome. I often think of that hospital as the place in which…
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Continue reading →: Hiromi Shinya Memorial Date
As Notablog readers know, I memorialized the trailblazing Dr. Hiromi Shinya in two previous posts back in December 2021 and January 2022. I was just informed by his daughter, Erica Kim, that a memorial service will be held for her father on Sunday, October 9, from 3:30pm at the Marble…
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Continue reading →: Happy Passover, Western Easter, and Ramadan!
Three holidays converge this weekend, so I’m wishing my Jewish friends a Happy Passover, my Western Christian friends a Happy Easter, and my Islamic friends a Happy Ramadan. The Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate Palm Sunday today… so I’ll delay my Happy Eastern Easter greetings till next week! But a special…
