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I just wanted to flag this nice little story about the new Chicago Mayor, Lori Lightfoot, who took a trip to visit the small Orthodox Jewish...

Many of you are no doubt aware of the recent controversy where a Women's March leader was cozying up to Louis Farrakhan (you can read my...

I briefly posted last night about the exclusion of queer Jews carrying a rainbow flag with a Star of David on it being excluded from a Chic...

A recent letter sent by the University of Chicago to its incoming students  has generated quite a bit of attention for its verbiage on that ...

Israel, including the Israeli Defense Forces, commits human rights violations against Palestinians as part and parcel of its ongoing occupat...

On Twitter, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich states that he was among the victims of a string of incidents where anti-Semitic ...

An interesting conference at The University of Chicago Law School . As a decided skeptic regarding the capacity (and beneficence) of interna...

One of the stranger things about my time in Champaign was the phonecalls I'd receive aimed at former denizens of my office. One of my co...

Wooooo! Well, actually, nothing so dramatic. But it is my birthday, and I am in Chicago celebrating with some friends. Back in Champaign tom...

Everybody around here is sniffly and stuffy -- myself included. Apparently, it's not a virus. Rather, it's the ongoing corn harvest,...

My comparison of Chicago versus Champaign is very strange. Chicago is a huge city. Champaign is a small town. Yet Champaign has the early ed...

The University of Chicago college magazine has listed The Debate Link as one of its top ten best University of Chicago blogs: "Third-y...

Rich Whitney, The Green Party candidate for governor of Illinois will show up on electronic ballots as "Rich Whitey". But not in ...

My University of Chicago spam filter just tagged a message from the new Dean of the Law School. Ouch.

I love this piece , mostly because it is accompanied by the perfect photo of Professor Nussbaum. It's 100% "Oh yeah, I'm actual...

Roger "Lily White" Clegg is coming to speak at Chicago , where presumably he will preach his message that empirical research into...

Someone asked me where they could find a "street with a bunch of good restaurants" here in Hyde Park. I gave it my best shot, but ...

The culprit for my recent rundown feeling is a fading viral infection, plus a canker sore in the back of my throat (which, annoying as it is...

My post on this week's Chicago Works in Progress talk is now up . Dean Saul Levmore presented on how incrementalism can be a tool for in...

Fred Barnes and Bill Bennett talk about Sotomayor's academic credentials: BARNES: I think you can make the case that she's one of t...