Interview

Darren Reisberg implements David Axelrod's (AB’76) vision for the Institute of Politics.

Jian Ping weaves past and present with a documentary based on her memoir about growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution.

An interview with UChicago’s Hillary Chute, who convened an all-star lineup for a conference on comics.

July–Aug/12

Seth Zurer, the cofounder of Chicago’s Baconfest, answers a few questions about his favorite meaty treat.

Tech writer and law student Julian Dibbell tackles the problem of virtual property.
An interview with writer and tale-teller Robert Coover, AM’65.

The author—and College parent—talks about his most recent book on UChicago historian William Dodd, who was ambassador to Hitler’s Germany.
Jonathan Lear tries to revive the term as Socrates understood it—the opposite of detachment.

Excerpts from our conversation with retired Laboratory Schools teacher Vivian Gussin Paley, PhB’47.
This fall fourth-year Kelvin Ho spent his days not in class but on Occupy Chicago’s front lines.