
“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

“Through the Mirror: Claude Lévi-Strauss in Japan”
April 14th, 2013
“Toobin's Pivot: Jeffrey Toobin's "The Oath"”
April 10th, 2013
“The Tour that Launched a Million Queers”
April 6th, 2013
“Tilting Against Naïve Materialism: On Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos"”
February 22nd, 2013
“Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”
February 5th, 2013
“Trading Faith for Wonder: On Judaism's Literary Legacy”
January 21st, 2013
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

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