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Looking for something to do Sunday morning, we decided to drive west of the city to the sleepy little town of Plano, IL to visit one of the most famous works of modern residential architecture from the 20th century. Tucked amidst sparse trees beside the cold black rush of the Fox River in autumn is [...]

Ivan Illich offers both a bleak view of contemporary institutionalized society and an inspiring vision of what could be in his 1970 treatise Deschooling Society. “Good radical stuff,” notes the Observer in its cover accolade. Indeed it is radical in the best and truest sense of the word as defined below: Radical. adj. Arising from [...]

Pink, blue, purple, green–aren’t these all just colors, beautiful colors of our world?! I really don’t understand why people associate colors, or anything else for that matter, so completely with one gender or the other. Why can’t a boy get a purple folder? Why can’t a girl get a plastic frog to play with? And [...]