
“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



Flower creation, maggot painting, microbe literature, and bio art.
April 13th, 2013
Who, or what, is the 'shiksa'?
March 3rd, 2013

The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
January 24th, 2013
A letter from London, on the lyric.
January 24th, 2013
On realizing a favorite cultural nightmare: the destruction of NYC
November 24th, 2012

Of Master and disciple, an 'unresolved love story'
October 20th, 2012
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
June 22nd, 2012
if you self-publish, you’re branded a sinner of sorts.
March 17th, 2012
Tintin est Mort!
December 27th, 2011
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

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

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