
“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


“More Than Just a Place to Stop for Gas”
October 24th, 2012
“Mina and Lucy at the Waffle House”
October 14th, 2012
“The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death”
September 3rd, 2012



“Mining the Great Midden of Genre”
June 21st, 2012




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

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

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

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

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

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More