
“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 Epilogues
August 13th, 2012

On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
August 12th, 2012
On Track and Swimming
August 10th, 2012
On 'the lake has no saint' by Stacey Waite
August 9th, 2012
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
August 7th, 2012
The Ghost Sports: Baseball
August 6th, 2012
On Table Tennis and Track & Field
August 3rd, 2012
Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
A mother's attempts to protect her son from her own past
July 2nd, 2012
A new literature for a new age, the 'Age of Man'
June 20th, 2012
Each age gets the Sherlock Holmes it deserves.
May 21st, 2012
"Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."
April 23rd, 2012
It wasn't Chaplin they cheered, of course; it was the Tramp.
April 18th, 2012
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