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Continue reading →: JARS December 2021 Now on Project Muse
The December 2021 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies has now made its debut on Project Muse, after being made available on JSTOR. The hard copy will be in the hands of subscribers soon! Don’t miss this important issue, which includes my own essay, co-authored with Pavel Solovyev:…
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Continue reading →: Facebook: Philosophers as Profile Month 2021 (II)
As readers know, I chose Don Lavoie (1951-2001) as my first profile pic for the event, “Philosophers as Profile Pictures Month.” In keeping with the holiday season, however, I’m straying from the rules a bit, and staying with my current goofy profile pic on Facebook. But with a H/T to…
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Continue reading →: A New FB Profile Pic … for Christmas!
It was either that ^ or this: Went with #1! 😉
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1894
Song of the Day: Bobby DJ’s Disconet Christmas Medley [YouTube link], mixed by the late Bobby “DJ” Guttadaro, was released in December 1978 by the Disconet Subscription Service. This past summer, I featured a tribute to the many wonderful dance medleys produced by the fine DJs at Disconet—and Bobby was…
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Continue reading →: The Rand Transcript Revealed (Part III)
This is the conclusion of a three-part preview to a newly published article coauthored by Pavel Solovyev and me: “The Rand Transcript Revealed” (The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, December 2021, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 141-229). Part One informed readers of the publication of this important article, while Part…
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Continue reading →: The Rand Transcript Revealed (Part II)
Yesterday, in “The Rand Transcript Revealed (Part I)“, I discussed the publication of my new Journal of Ayn Rand Studies article, coauthored with Pavel Solovyev, which features 28 archival images in color (and four tables), documenting—as never before—the details of Ayn Rand’s Soviet education at the University of Petrograd. Today…
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Continue reading →: The Rand Transcript Revealed (Part I)
It gives me great pleasure to announce that JSTOR has published the December 2021 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. Project Muse will be publishing this issue soon. Today, I’d like to begin a series of posts discussing the lead essay in the current issue. That essay, “The…
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Continue reading →: Serpico: 50 Years Ago Today!
It’s hard to believe… but fifty years ago today, detective Frank Serpico sat before the Knapp Commission in NYC to expose systematic corruption in the NYPD. The whistleblower’s experiences became the subject of a terrific 1973 film, “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino. From a New York Daily News article marking this…
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Continue reading →: Empathy—and Dismay
On Facebook, I gave a H/T to my friend Joshua Zader for his re-posting of this graphic on the subject of “empathy” … As I wrote on Facebook, this encapsulates one important way by which to celebrate the goodwill of the holiday season: Learning empathy. I added: “If I’d boxed…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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