
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen


Philip Roth, baseball, and giving up fiction for good
February 9th, 2013
On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
February 8th, 2013
The 'unacknowledged legislators' of the women's movement
February 8th, 2013
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
Shame and Her Sisters
February 5th, 2013
The evolution of the flâneur
February 2nd, 2013
An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
Autobiography and memento mori from hip-hop's rising memoirist
January 31st, 2013
You Probably Think This Show is About You
January 30th, 2013
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
January 28th, 2013
Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
January 27th, 2013

Revisiting the Beat luminary's radical life and work
January 26th, 2013
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
January 24th, 2013
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