Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is, of course, one of the most enduringly popular and celebrated composers to have ever lived. With this year marking the 250th
We don’t often get the chance to discuss Clint Eastwood on this blog. Pairing Eastwood with one of our authors may seem as absurd as,
“True philosophy leads to the latke.” So proved the great philosopher Ted Cohen in the 1976 Latke-Hamantash Debate at the University of Chicago. Any night
With his unsettling eloquence and his varying voices of protest, play, rage, and refusal, Shylock—the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands
“The first Christians were Jews, and thought of themselves as Jews; it is therefore impossible to understand Christianity without tracing its Judaic roots” writes Chicago
In a recent review for Time Out Chicago Ruth Welte writes that Caitlin Zaloom’s Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
On Point, a public radio program produced by WBUR in Boston, recently ran this hour-long segment featuring a discussion with Paul Lewis, author of Cracking
Writing for the December issue of Oceanography, the official magazine of the American Oceanography Society, columnist Tom Garrison notes that it’s not often one comes
Bernard Harcourt, author of the recent Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age, gave a talk last month for the Chicago’s Best
You’ll never look with the same eyes at the British Museum’s legendary Egyptian collection—or any other exhibition, for that matter—after going behind the scenes with
