Michael Dinnocenzo

Michael Dinnocenzo

137 Articles

Out Of Left Field: Wonderful Winthrop Langone Hospital

I know hospitals. I could not possibly count the number I have been in (since my Last Rites at Nyack

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Out of Left Field: Benjamin Franklin

My previous column invited selections for the “greatest American of all time.”    Responses came from women asking about females

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Out of Left Field: Obama’s legacy for lifetime judges

Controversies about the selection of a Supreme Court justice to replace Antonin Scalia have high importance for our nation.  

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Out of Left Field: Franklin

His life spanned 1706 to 1790, a century of kings, emperors, “lords,” and of precious little representative government or democracy. 

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Out of Left Field: Is the American Enlightenment dead?

Early in the 2008 campaign I met Rick Shenkman when he came to speak at Hofstra. I took exception to

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Out of Left Field: Would greatest LIer be a Dem in ‘16?

Theodore Roosevelt is rated among the top five American presidents in history.   In light of that acclaim, you might

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Out of Left Field: We are often prisoners of the present

As I celebrate my journey past Lincoln’s “four score” count, what a pleasure and privilege it is to write for

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Out of Left Field: Time to watch the world serious

The last two words of my first column were “World Serious.” As with many other perspectives, I learned that phrase

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Out of Left Field: It’s late in 4th quarter for football

A “Tipping Point” is approaching for the demise of tackle football.  The game will end first for pre-collegiate players.  Indeed, some

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Out of Left Field: A man who helped lead ‘A Citizens Century’

My dear friend, Harold Saunders, died this month. Hal’s obituary in The New York Times (March 9) demonstrates why he

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Out of Left Field: GOP’s 2012 autopsy, 2016 cremation

The 2016 election season is one of the most dramatically controversial in decades.   So far, fortunately, it has not

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Out of Left Field: What does Democracy look like?

A  week ago, one of the most diverse groups of people ever assembled at Hofstra University provided a striking example of

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Out of Left Field: Our shared future

The elections of 2016 could affect all of us for decades to come — even for the rest of our

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Out of Left Field: American amnesia on wedge issues

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King Jr. repeated that statement

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Out of Left Field: DiNapoli, Trump

How did three very different sons address deaths of their fathers?  I was stirred to think about some comparisons as

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