The Inside Story of Why UChicago Fell from First Place to Thirteenth in FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings
Sean Stevens, FIRE’s director of polling and analytics, told the Thinker that “there is a singular reason” for UChicago’s fall: ...
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Is God Queer? UChicago’s Religious Studies Department Wants to Know
This week, UChicago released its course listings for the autumn quarter of the upcoming academic year. One of the classes ...
BREAKING: Dr. Scott Atlas Highlights Mental Trauma, Learning Losses, Child Abuse Caused by COVID Policy
Speaking at Friday’s Academia’s COVID Failures symposium at the University of Chicago, Atlas detailed the especially burdensome effects of COVID-19 policies ...
UChicago Disciplines Transgender Student for Vandalizing TPUSA Free Speech Demonstration
The chapter presented a large beach ball and a dry-erase marker to students, allowing them to write any desired message ...
‘Interesting’: The Most Vacuous, Least Interesting Phrase in Class Discourse?
I would say things were interesting because I either had nothing else meaningful to offer to the class discussion or ...
Symposium at UChicago to Host Atlas, Bhattacharya, Turley, and More
We are proud to announce Academia’s COVID Failures, a symposium that will take place on May 19, 2023, from 11:30 ...
‘No Civil Debate with Uncivil People’: Ilya Shapiro Met With Intolerance at UChicago
Unwelcoming messages on the law school sidewalks stated, “No civil debate with uncivil people,” “White supremacists are not welcome,” and ...
UChicago’s Chief of Surgery Smeared Governor Ron DeSantis as Anti-Semitic for Criticizing George Soros. This Hurts Jews like Me
Knowing that freedom-loving Americans want nothing to do with indiscriminate bombing in the Middle East, Marxian economic systems, or Soros’ ...
Letter: Ilya Shapiro Responds to Thinker’s Ben Ogilvie
What we’re seeing isn’t simply the next step in the liberal control of higher education, provoking the latest conservative complaint ...
Graduate Students United and Its Daddy Issues
In 1980, the University of Chicago’s Harper Library hosted a debate on worker protection and unions featuring intellectual heavyweights Milton ...
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