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The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge is introducing itself to the University of Chicago this academic year through TED-style talks and a scholarly journal, a full roster of classes and an inaugural lecture by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

The Grove of Academus, Site of Plato’s Academy The contributors to Interlitq‘s “Groves of Academe 1” feature will be as follows: Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), Clifford Ando, David B....

By Marshall Sahlins  [The Nation] Confucius Institutes censor political discussions and restrain the free exchange of ideas. Why, then, do American universities sponsor them? We were sitting in his office, Ted Foss and I, on the third floor of...

What are the social and ethical implications of machine-learning algorithms that can accurately predict crime in Chicago? How should we rethink the very meaning of a natural history museum to become better stewards of the art and artifacts of indigenous...

By Elizabeth Redden The distrust and even disdain with which many practicing Hindus view the scholars who study their religion would likely surprise many outside the confines of the field. A cultural and religious war is raging in which Western academics...