
“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


“Notes on Woody Guthrie’s “Mermaid Avenue””
July 14th, 2012

“Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”
October 13th, 2011
“Gasstopia: William H. Gass and the Life Inside Language”
April 12th, 2013
“Adventures in Limbo: On Jim Gavin's "Middle Men"”
February 19th, 2013

“Tilting Against Naïve Materialism: On Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"”
February 22nd, 2013

“Fantasies of Understanding: Adam Phillips’s "Missing Out"”
January 22nd, 2013
"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

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

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

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