John Schultz, author of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968, recently spoke with WMNF about the history of police
Recently, a spate of articles appeared surrounding the future of the university press. Many of these, of course, focused on the roles institutional library sales, e-books,
From Bernard E. Harcourt’s Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age *** The ratchet [also] contributes to an exaggerated general perception
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On the one-hundredth anniversary of World War I, it might be especially opportune to consider one of the unspoken inheritances of global warfare: soldiers who
The impossibility of religious freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan In the last week the US Supreme Court has decided two religious freedom cases (Burwell
From House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again by Atif Mian and
Not a bad summer for Hillary Chute, so far. The University of Chicago’s reigning doyenne of the history of comics and cartooning, Chute earned several
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