Bennett specializes in understatement, using bland illustrations that force the reader to fill in the meaning. It’s dangerous in that some readers have problems understanding even clearly stated messages, but you can dismiss that crowd for just that reason: They aren’t going to get it anyway.For those able to process subtlety, this type of messaging […]

He’s only a bird in a gilded cage, Rowe says, but it’s a cage of his own devise, and while, as the dove of peace says, we’ve heard it all before, the telling aspect is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action he uses as a paper at the bottom of that cage.You don’t have to […]

I was always skeptical of teachers who said, “I’m tough, but fair.” I knew teachers who were tough but fair, but none of them ever said so and they didn’t have to, because we knew it. The ones who proclaimed it were, instead, rigidly harsh and felt “fair” meant having everything go their way.It is […]