Over the course of his career historian Tony Judt has become one of the nation’s most “famously tough-minded and combative” public intellectuals, writes Wesley Yang
Last night, Kathryn Bigelow took home the Oscar for Best Director (the first for a woman) and her film, The Hurt Locker, topped a field
John Kass’s column in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune discussed Chicago police officer Martin Prieb’s forthcoming book The Wagon and Other Stories from the City—an authentic chronicle
Ronald Searle, the master of modern caricature who, since 1995, has plied his sardonic trade on the coveted op-ed pages of the French daily newspaper
How has drinking milk changed the human genome? It used to be that humans switched off the gene that digests lactose shortly after being weaned
On Sunday, 60 Minutes featured a segment on the forced deportation and massacre of more than one million Christian Armenians in Turkey during the first
Good science doesn’t always tell you what you want to hear. So while the message at the core of Alana Mitchell’s Seasick: Ocean Change and
Ted Cohen’s funny and fascinating philosophical exploration of the nature of jokes in Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters, is now available for free download
Yesterday was the birthday of Ben Hecht. Though best known for his second career as a Hollywood screenwriter (he won an Oscar for 1927’s Underworld
With the Supreme Court due to hear arguments tomorrow in a suit challenging Chicago’s ban on handguns in the city, Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight