UChicago is unrecognizeable to me anymore. That question, “Is there language teaching we can do via ChatGPT?,” is dark.

“Is the university functioning as a kind of tax-free pass-through organization?” Read Clifford Ando’s piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-cr…

Incredible financial details. It looks like the University of Chicago has been run nearly as poorly as the city of Chicago.

I’m all for cutting down on the number of PhD programs, but the Dean of humanities at UofC is saying that they want to focus exclusively on topics that can be studied in English and eliminate anything that requires foreign language study (like Classics or Asian Studies). Insane

It’s insane what’s going on at the University of Chicago, and this is well worth reading. compactmag.com/article/the-cr…

A superb article by Clifford Ando. A key sentence: 'America began to conceive of education as a private, personal good, to be measured solely in terms of increase in lifetime earnings'. Ando dates this change to the early 80s. compactmag.com/article/the-cr…

Well done the Cotswolds!

12 July 1957 lecture by Adorno to UChicago students on “the purpose of education” defending disciplinary specialization. “the shortest path to genuine universality is to be found precisely when we abandon the quest for the merely general.”

no the university of chicago can't sustain a project of architectural follymaking/economically bizarre sinecure for some the most famous architects in the world

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Why did the NYTimes publish this weird, cringe, self-hating diatribe against my people? Gen X forever! nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opi…

If the Nobel Peace Prize committee is looking for someone to give that award to, I think Chef José Andrés would be a perfect choice.

I remember attending a party at Chicago where several people were working on the Hittite dictionary. Knowing Greek and Latin was like having taken French in high school. What a godforsaken wreck that university has become.

Perhaps the worst news so far in the worst six month news cycle for higher ed, at least in my memory.

Take a look at the sticker price for this university and ask yourself why it needs to offload teaching to Chat GPT.

I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019. Lately, I have been thinking of these lines from Erich Kästner (an author I read in German class at Chicago), writing about the obliteration of his hometown of Dresden during the war: “I was born in the most beautiful city in

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