The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people.

… this is very agreeable to the Nature of Achilles; his Anger abates very slowly; it is stubborn, yet still it remits:

that this is the true flourishing of a land, other things follow as the shadow does the substance; to teach thus were mere pulpitry to them.

With such results possible on the front line of teaching, the only question remaining is whether much of the education industry will overcome its ....