Features
Free speech law at 100
Two constitutional scholars weigh 21st-century challenges to the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.
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A new book looks at the history of Chicago through the lens of print.
The view from the tree house of knowledge
With the opening of a campus in Hong Kong, the University begins a new era of intellectual partnership. Plus: “Tree House/Art House”
Legal light
Soia Mentschikoff (1915–1984) reformed how the United States does business and led the way for later generations of women in law.
Goal digger
Want to exercise more, save money, and eat healthier? Ayelet Fishbach’s research can help.
When what you do is no longer who you are
Retirement doesn’t always live up to the blissful media image.
Editor’s notes
Postcard from Hong Kong
Off duty in a new city, a writer lets serendipity and a local’s advice guide the way.
Letters
Readers sound off
Readers appreciate a Study Abroad story, remember a scientific friendship, make the case for weightier coverage in the Magazine, and more.
On the agenda
Driving social change with research and collaboration
School of Social Service Administration dean Deborah Gorman-Smith on the school’s ambitious future vision.
UChicago Journal
Nasty, brutish, and short
Neurobiologists approach a better grasp of a mother octopus’s grim final days.
The open road
It’s time to rethink stereotypes about American truckers.
True to his roots
Bill Nowlin, AM’69, made a home for folk music as cofounder of Rounder Records.
Office apocalypse
It’s the end of the working world as we know it in Ling Ma’s (AB’05) dystopian novel Severance.
Music lessons
Learning leadership, poco a poco.
Getting an earful
Highlights from the University’s Big Brains podcast.
Something good
This cinematic lip-lock made history.
Interview: And civil justice for all
Rebecca Sandefur, AM’97, PhD’01, studies how real people use—or don’t use—the civil justice system, and proposes real solutions.
Abstracts: Faculty research
Researchers tally the human cost of ridesharing; praise gratitude; investigate an elephant cancer-fighting gene; and probe the gender gap in math achievement.
W.R. Harper’s Index: Globe-trotters
Study Abroad, by the numbers.
For the Record: University news
A selection of the latest headlines from UChicago.
Peer review
Notes
Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.
Releases
The Magazine lists a selection of general interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.
Alumni essay
Up and down Halsted Street
The view from a CTA bus driver’s seat took in the range of human experience—including the most heartbreaking.
Deaths
University obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
William Baude, SB’04
Questions for the College alumnus and Law School professor.
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Organizing principle
For activist Heather Booth, AB’67, AM’70, the personal has been the political for more than 50 years.
Ethics class
A short story by Ted Cohen, AB’62.
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Bad wife, good wife, her own wife
An evening of book club gossip about Maude Hutchins, Muriel Beadle, and Hanna Holborn Gray.
New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens
It started as a joke. Then it became a thing.
How to sell to young people
Jacob Chang of JÜV Consulting has some advice.
Carillon my wayward song
There’ll be peace when you are done.
Talk Yiddish to me
Questions for a cappella group Rhythm and Jews.
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New major, new minors
College students now have six more options.
What’s new in the College
In brief: Hong Kong economics, new on-campus housing requirement, and more.
Alumni poll: The march of time
What’s the best tradition? UChicago alumni have spoken.
2019 world pup
Meet Cora, the soccer-playing border collie.
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Art me up
Over 50 years, Patric McCoy, AB’69, has collected 1,300 pieces of art and made them into a piece all his own.
Flush-In
It’s not just political. It’s hydrological.