
“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
“The Empire Swipes Back: App-Lit in "Brief"”
February 24th, 2013
“Easy Come, Easy Go: The Dark Side of Personal Finance”
February 17th, 2013
“End of Days: On Luvaas's "Ashes Rain Down"”
January 31st, 2013
“Every Accountant Tells a Story”
January 6th, 2013
“Enough and More Than Enough: On Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach””
December 5th, 2012
“Empire at the End of Time: On Gina Apostol's "Gun Dealers' Daughter"”
November 19th, 2012
“England, His England: Ian McEwan as Documentarian”
November 13th, 2012
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

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

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


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