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NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the classics in paperback, co-founded The New York Review of Books and worked with such novelists as E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at age 93.

NEW YORK — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the classics in paperback, co-founded The New York Review of Books and

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his 1844 essay on character that, “Men of character are the conscience of the society in which they belong.” Bringing the essay forward, we would

Roy Exum: Easter Morning, 2021 Sunday, April 4, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum Ten years ago on an Easter Sunday like this one, the Rev. Todd B. Jones stood in the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville and told of the shortest Easter sermon ever given.  It is so short it is easily memorized and impossible to forget. As Christians the world over celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus today, allow me to give my space on this most meaningful Holy Day of the year to the saintly Mary...

  Transcript Casey McDermott: Im Casey McDermott, in for Laura Knoy and this is The Exchange. When is the last time you read a presidential biography that does not just focus on that particular politicians biography of their childhood or perhaps their early political career, but also includes lists of things like his pettiest acts or his frenemies. Today on The Exchange, well revisit the legacy of perhaps the most mythologized founding father, George Washington, with historian Alexis ...

FOREWORD  by Kay C. James    Newt Gingrich is not only one of the best-known and respected speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, he’s also a noted historian and longtime friend of The Heritage Foundation. At a time when the nation is deeply divided and many Americans seem willing to throw away our future to politicians promising a socialist utopia, he has come up with a truly exceptional idea. It’s a plan for rekindling a deep sense of patriotism in the American people, for cr...

your hand into the air where she can see it and wait until she reaches you and then everyone can hear it. >> is this on? why are there no great unifying leaders like george washington today? >> first of all, read the farewell address. washington never believed that the united states would be without political differences or political parties, factions, whatever you want to call them. what washingtons whole presidency was about, whether it was staying out of european conflict or trying ...

or that phrase black power, it made many people think that black power meant destruction. blowing up the statue of liberty or ground zero. destroying america. it wasnt anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america. and having america to have a new paradigm in terms of how we can be what each and every one of us did the pledge when we were going to elementary school and the land of the free, the home of the brave. we all wanted to be great americans, but we found th...

book that the atomic energy commission actually has a system of secret keeping that runs parallel to the presidents system of secret keeping which is the national security system. that is not the way the constitution was written, but it is what the atomic energy agent of 1946 allowed, so when the charter was written right after world war ii for the atomic energy commission, they created the system of secret keeping which the slang for it is called born classified. scholars who looked i...

>> host: thank you for being on the communicators and correspondence for the intelligence correspondent for the "wall street journal," thank you as well. this has been week one in our four week series on cybersecurity. next week, two members of congress on the legislative proposal. republican of texas, jim lavegin, democrat of rhode island. >> in a few moments our specialbooktv and prime time schedule begins. >> next, investigative reporter on her book "area 51: uncensored history of ...