From our print archive: The story of University administrator William B. Benton’s 1937 conversation with the Mahatma.

An excerpt from The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, by arrangement with the University of Chicago Press. ©1987, the University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.

Sociologist William Julius Wilson sets forth to help the truly disadvantaged.

The humorist and literary critic reminiscences about his College days and writing his first book, Maroon Tales.

The history of Hyde Park’s well-loved watering hole.

Of sturdy stuff are poets made, or else they’d never make the grade.

From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.

Scientist Michael LaBarbera searches for tiny sea creatures—brachiopods—in underwater caves, to help flesh out the evolutionary record.

Face time at the Magazine’s Instagram account.

Mathematics historian Judith Victor Grabiner, SB’60, teaches math to the liberal arts masses.

John Snyder traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear.

Author Adam Minter, AB’93, weighs in on the wide world of waste.