
“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


“Cherry Bomb: On Ellen Willis”
September 19th, 2011
“China’s Singular Sexual Revolution”
December 16th, 2012



“Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"”
March 14th, 2012
“Circulation Jerks: On the Book as Fetish Object”
August 31st, 2012
“Clam Spit and the Seattle World's Fair”
February 23rd, 2013
“Cogito Ergo Boom: Susan Sontag's Journals”
June 6th, 2012
“Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”
July 1st, 2012


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