
“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 Business of Being Born
December 7th, 2012
"What If You Guys Had A Baby?"
November 29th, 2012

Leading Ladies?
November 16th, 2012
'Good Grief'
October 31st, 2012
Go Back to Start, Do Not Pass Go
October 27th, 2012
Does this movement want to curb the plutocrats? Or does it just want to be?
October 21st, 2011

“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
On Hale's 'The Man Without A Country'
March 24th, 2013
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011

Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
A Hack comic is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, “poking fun,” never “killing.” He is the jester who won’t risk the king’s displeasure.
November 20th, 2011
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

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

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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

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