
“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


“Enlightenment: It's What's For Dinner”
March 10th, 2013
“Discoveries: Frances Moore Lappé”
September 24th, 2011
“The Most Hated of Architects: On Edward Durrell Stone”
January 30th, 2013
“Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland”
April 5th, 2013


“The Love That Dared to Write Its Name”
May 13th, 2012

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

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

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

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


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