
“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


The Singularity & late capitalism & technological despair — oh my!
September 12th, 2012
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'
September 12th, 2012
On the magazine’s frequent, and frequently controversial, articles about gender issues.
September 10th, 2012
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's.
September 9th, 2012

Falling under the strange spell of a Canadian tradition.
September 7th, 2012
Concluding Commentary
September 7th, 2012
Interviews with John Heilemann, E.J. Dionne, Sean Wilentz and Rep. John Lewis
September 6th, 2012
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet
September 2nd, 2012

On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
The massacre of 34 striking miners in South Africa
September 1st, 2012
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

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

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More


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