
“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


“A Matter of Rhythm: Benoît Peeters’s “Derrida: A Biography””
March 30th, 2013


“A Merry Dance: Will Self Takes on Modernism”
February 12th, 2013
“The Most Hated of Architects: On Edward Durrell Stone”
January 30th, 2013
“A More Interesting Grief: On Andrey Platonov”
January 11th, 2013
“Marikana, Part II: Looking For Answers to a South African Massacre”
January 4th, 2013

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

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

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