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Book smart

Book smart

Jeff Deutsch has a plan to save one of the nation’s most beloved bookstores: Chicago’s Seminary Co-op.
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#Fakenews and free speech — in 1967

#Fakenews and free speech — in 1967

Fifty years ago, University of Chicago English professor Wayne C. Booth gave an eerily prescient speech.
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Bodies of work

Bodies of work

Lewis Hine, EX 1904, captured the changing face of American labor.
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Out of the shadows

Out of the shadows

According to Hollywood legend, Eliot Ness brought down Al Capone. The reality is more complicated.
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Infinite possibilities

Infinite possibilities

How Ken Ono, AB’89, found life in and outside of math.
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Lingua franca

Lingua franca

What if you took a language class and actually learned to speak?
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
Life on other planets?

Life on other planets?

In spite of the hours clocked at super-spyglasses, astronomers have yet to spot any little green men on Mars or any other planet. But they…
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Spellbound

Spellbound

Believing that fairy tales have lost their magic, Renaissance scholar Armando Maggi, PhD’95, calls for a new kind of happily ever after.
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Student unrest and the role of the media

Student unrest and the role of the media

Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, AB’38, on the complexities of covering campus protest in the Vietnam era.
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PLUS . . . FROM THE CORE
Recipe: Quad Club caprese salad

Recipe: Quad Club caprese salad

Tomatoes, mozzarella, basil — and homegrown peaches. Bliss.
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Minority leader

Minority leader

Matthew Foldi, Class of 2018 (political science), describes himself in his Twitter bio as “everyone’s favorite Republican committeeman.”
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Clichés I have known and loved

Clichés I have known and loved

A lexicographer’s favorite clichés (before he grew to hate them).
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