
“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


Interviews with John Heilemann, E.J. Dionne, Sean Wilentz and Rep. John Lewis
September 6th, 2012
Concluding Commentary
September 7th, 2012
This story of emancipation is woefully incomplete. How could it be otherwise?
December 14th, 2012
On Laird Hunt's fractured narratives and his latest novel 'Kind One'
December 3rd, 2012
Free Period
July 7th, 2012
"L.A. hip hop, like the punk and skateboarding subcultures of the 1970s, had sprouted from the imaginations of forgotten kids..."
May 3rd, 2012
On 'Voyager' and 'Address' by Srikanth Reddy and Elizabeth Willis
July 14th, 2012
Remembering the American comics artist and editor
April 27th, 2013
Some Thoughts on My Downton Abbey Obsession (and Yours) As We Wait Between Seasons 2 and 3
July 29th, 2012
On 'Hitchcock' and the enduring mysteries of 'Psycho'
December 20th, 2012

Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More


"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More