Late Republic Nonsense

2 months ago | davereaboi.substack.com | David Reaboi

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2 months ago | davereaboi.substack.com | David Reaboi

Duke Ellington was in his early 60s when he made the wonderful Afro Bossa for Frank Sinatra’s then-young Reprise label in 1963. Brazil’s Bossa Nova—a wistful, cosmopolitan domestication of the samba with cool jazz harmonies—was taking the music world by storm, but the wave hadn’t yet crested. Duke was always interested in staying current, but he never threw himself into trend without assimilating them into his unique sound-world.

2 months ago | davereaboi.substack.com | David Reaboi

There are records I want to write about, but the topic seems far too overwhelming for a brief post. This is one of those. It’s impossible to be write about Vinícius de Moraes—undoubtedly one of the most fascinating people of the last century—without veering off into an almost unlimited number of diversions. He was a hard-drinking, nine times-married former career diplomat, playwright, essayist, and poet.

2 months ago | davereaboi.substack.com | David Reaboi

Joe Biden knows he will give up the 2024 race, and his most important advisors and confidants in his immediate family–his wife Jill and son Hunter–understand that he must, too—regardless of what they’re saying in public or how much Joe insists he’s sticking around. This isn’t a clickbait prognostication; the following is a fleshing-out of arguments I’ve made on social media for the last several weeks, if not months.

2 months ago | davereaboi.substack.com | David Reaboi

I was in Dallas visiting with friends last week for Thanksgiving, and I appeared on The Blaze News Tonight, hosted by the estimable duo of Jill Savage and Matt Peterson. Since it was a very busy week with travel and merriment, I wanted to upload portions of this show in case you missed it.