...That was the order given to the test subjects who administered a nearly lethal electrical shock to unwitting “learners” in the Milgram obedience experiment, administered over fifty years ago, at [...]

When we read something outlandish in a novel, we think that could never happen in real life, and we break that willing suspension of disbelief that makes reading fiction so [...]

  On Wall Street there's a bronze statue of a girl who looks about the same age as the sixth graders in the middle school that I teach. She looks [...]

In my headline, I've borrowed the French idiom, trompe l'oeil--"something that misleads or tricks the senses"--to make a point about what we're experiencing in America today. We love this notion [...]