Activist Mckesson is now a politics fellow at the University of Chicago. Talk about a nice gig for an activist: The perpetual blue vest-wearing activist will “lead a seminar series focused on social justice, social…
Topic: University of Chicago

Federalizing the MLA
Colleges and universities are forever feeling shortchanged by taxpayers. They needn’t worry. For one thing, they are far richer than those of us who actually pay federal levies. For another, academia has succeeded in securing…
Poll of Millennials Shows Support for Gun Control
From Campus Reform: A new poll by the University of Chicago finds that Millennials have a strong preference for gun control, even supporting a proposed ban on semi-automatic weapons. The survey—which was conducted by GenForward,…
7th Circuit Court Judge Called Tributes to Late Justice Antonin Scalia “Absurd”
A sitting judge of the 7th Circuit Court, Richard Posner, said that tributes to the late Justice Antonin Scalia are “absurd.” He also said that judges shouldn’t have to sit down and read the Constitution extensively. Huh?
Food Activists Lose Fight at University of Chicago
The College Fix reported, “University of Chicago student government representatives are more worried about a food fight with their constituents than the societal problem of mass incarceration.”
University of Chicago Students Ask for Divestment from China
Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation website. ALEXANDRIA, VA — When it comes to “diversity,” American colleges and universities are eager to embrace differences in race, ethnic background, religion,…
Chicago Law Graduates Accuse the Late SCOTUS Justice Scalia of Racism
Black students were upset that they received low grades while in the University of Chicago’s law school, with Antonin Scalia as their professor. They claimed he was racist, but the law school has a blind…
Matching Poor Students to College
Education researchers, college administrators and professors at the American Enterprise Institute expressed concern that more poor kids aren’t going to college. Yet and still, they might be luring people to college who might be better…
Magna Carta 2.0
Here might be a workable way to look at academia: That which academics dismiss is probably worth exploring. “There is quite a list of academics who question the importance of the Magna Carta,” University of…