
“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


“Peace, Violence and the Species”
August 22nd, 2012

“Strangers on a Train: Film Americana”
January 6th, 2013
“Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual”
May 19th, 2013

“The Ceiling Worker: Ben Katchor's "The Cardboard Valise"”
June 28th, 2011
“Lizard Brains: On "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"”
November 18th, 2012
“Rowling Keeps It Real: On "The Casual Vacancy"”
March 1st, 2013

“Philosophical Improvisations”
December 20th, 2011

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

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

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

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

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