Preamble Playing with Fire By Lewis H. Lapham The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels. More
Essay Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Charts & Graphs The Pen Is Mightier Questions from IQ tests administered to U.S. Army recruits during World War I. View
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face. —Leonard Cohen, 1970
