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
University of Chicago Press author, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, dedicated Americanist, photographer, writer, cyclist, and musician Peter Bacon Hales (1950–2014) died earlier
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,
When you think about Wikipedia, you might not immediately envision it as a locus for a political theory of openness—and that might well be due to
From Bernard E. Harcourt’s Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age *** The ratchet [also] contributes to an exaggerated general perception
“Ebola and the ‘new’ epidemic” by Tom Koch Mindless but intelligent, viruses and bacteria want what we all want: to survive, evolve, and then, to
Carl Zimmer is one of our most recognizable—and acclaimed—popular science journalists. Not only have his long-standing New York Times column, “Matter,” and his National Geographic blog,
From a profile of On the Run by Malcolm Gladwell in this week’s New Yorker: It was simply a fact of American life. He saw the pattern being
Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, one of the