
“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 Body is Everywhere: On Michael Klein’s “The Talking Day””
February 11th, 2013
“Beyond Tattoos: The Art of Body Adornment in Africa”
February 3rd, 2013
“The Brightest in the World: Ali Smith's "Artful"”
January 23rd, 2013
“Bud Light Lime, Unlikely Hope”
January 17th, 2013
“Back in the Fold: On 'A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel'”
December 10th, 2012
“The Ballad of Abel Kiviat: Jews and Sports”
December 6th, 2012

“The Book in the High Castle: On "The I Ching: A Biography"”
October 15th, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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


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

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

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

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