University of Chicago

Universities, with their verdant quads and hallowed halls of learning, are celebrated as bastions of ideas and academic freedoms. But more and more often, universities are being operated not as secular temples of education but as corporate business. Gaye Tuchman's exposé of the modern...

By Marcus Gilmer GP: Yeah, definitely. Football really started as an East Coast game but there were significant teams in the Midwest and it definitely became less of an elitist sport because of the rise of football in the Midwest, particularly in Chicago and the rural areas of Illinois and Ohio and other pl...

Long tradition of American political thought--states owe to every citizen a degree of subsistence. Second Bill of Rights made possible by attack on distinction between negative and positive rights. Effort to separate them is unfit for the American legal framework.

Now, as Julia Keller notes in a recent review for the Chicago Tribune, "thanks to the archival detective work of Neil Harris, emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, we can glide our way back to an era when elegance mattered—not only in dress and deportment, but also in sentence a...

Ginsburg honored for international achievement Inside Illinois, IL - He has a visiting appointment at the University of Chicago Law School. Ginsburg’s book “Judicial Review in New Democracies” (Cambridge University Press), ...

But, as Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones noted in his review, “This one will have the denizens of the University of Chicago buzzing. And inclined to stay away from pie.” Titus Andronicus runs through February 10. ...

By Adam P So what does the University of Chicago community think of Chant? Well, fully three of the five reviews we've received in the past few weeks have come from University IPs, so at least the students are engaged. The first review came in on ...

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Peer Review in Peril?  DC - Professors in the top five economics departments, as ranked by the National Research Council — Harvard University, the University of Chicago, MIT, ...

 NY - Mrs. Shirts, 24, graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was a founder of The Chicago Scholarly Review, a journal. ...

By Areva Martin Many years ago, I learned that fear can be the best teacher and motivator. At the tender age of 18, I entered the University of Chicago as a freshman. This century-old private university founded by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and nestled in the middle class neighborhood of Hyde Park, Chic...