Richard Ferrone
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A hardened New York cop risks everything to solve an impossible murder The precinct house at 19 Elizabeth Street is one of the oldest in New York, and some things about it never change. Overworked cops interrogate suspects, complain about their wives, and peck out reports on battered old typewriters. Steel mesh covers the windows and the garbage cans overflow. And as Lt. Dan Malone climbs the steps, nursing a hangover, he's certain that no matter...
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The former president of St. Johns College reveals why 2,500 years of learning in the West is of inestimable value to all of us, and why its trashing is a crime of monumental proportions.
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don't see the point of them. Americans don't understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics, or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature...
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Mike Kinney shouldn't be alive today.
When his truck slammed into a telephone pole and burst into flames, the seventeen-year-old became pinned in the driver seat. Moments before the vehicle was consumed by fire, Mike was pulled from the burning wreckage of twisted metal as his body burned. After his guitar was incinerated in the blaze, Pete Townsend from The Who, a musical inspiration, sent him a new guitar, offering, "This is the Phoenix."
In the...