Hearing Leviathan Sing, an Excerpt from “Listening to Beauty” by Megan Poole
October 23, 2025
In Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound, Megan Poole invites us into a moving study of how encounters with beauty advance scientific study. We are delighted to share a brief excerpt from the book below. I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period,
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Phoenix Poets Interview: Daniel Schonning
October 7, 2025
As we continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re delighted to highlight poet Daniel Schonning, whose debut collection will be published this month. As When Waking is an exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint,
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The Municipal Finance Journal joins the Chicago Journals program
October 3, 2025
We are honored to announce that the Municipal Finance Journal (MFJ) has joined the Chicago Journals publishing program. The journal is published in partnership with the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Launched in 1980, MFJ is a forum for research on the issues facing
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A Reading List for Autumn!
September 25, 2025
The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, the nights are growing chillier, and it can all only mean one thing: fall is upon us. Below are a handful of books that celebrate everything autumnal and spine-tingling, ranging from new editions of classic Halloween tales to explorations of divination
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Read an excerpt from “Wired Wisdom” by Eszter Hargittai & John Palfrey
September 23, 2025
This month we’re pleased to share a short section from the first chapter of Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online. Read on for an excerpt from this surprising window into the online lives of people sixty and over—offering essential insights, no matter your age. How can you thrive in
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5 Questions for Daniel Wortel-London, the author of “The Menace of Prosperity”
September 18, 2025
Many local policymakers make decisions based on the belief that what’s good for the rich is good for cities. But this wasn’t always the case. Between the 1870s and the 1970s, a wide range of activists, citizens, and intellectuals in New York City connected local fiscal crises to the greed
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What to Read for National Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15, 2025
To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ve put together a reading list highlighting books by and about Hispanic individuals and communities from a range of countries and traditions. With these books from Chicago and our distributed client presses, you can explore poetic voices, artists from Central and South America, the
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Read an Excerpt from “Doing Meritocracy Right” by Thomas A. Cole
September 11, 2025
As America’s most vaunted cultural value, meritocracy is celebrated by some as an institution and derided by others as a myth—or even a trap. Thomas A. Cole argues in Doing Meritocracy Right: How Business Leaders Can Turn an American Aspiration into Reality (and Why They Should) that if meritocracy is to persist
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A Conversation Among the Editors of the American Beginnings, 1500–1900 Series
August 26, 2025
Titles in the American Beginnings, 1500–1900 series address critical issues in American history from the initial period of European contact through the end of the nineteenth century. The series includes works by senior and junior scholars from a broad array of historical subfields, including politics, labor, race, religion, gender, and
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Posts published in “Technology”

Read an excerpt from “Wired Wisdom” by Eszter Hargittai & John Palfrey

By PublicityTeam on September 23, 2025

This month we’re pleased to share a short section from the first chapter of Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online. Read on for an excerpt from this surprising window into the online lives of people sixty and over—offering essential insights, no matter your age. How can you thrive in

Five Questions with John D. Skrentny, author of “Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math”

By PublicityTeam on December 5, 2023

We live in an era of veritable STEM obsession. Tech companies dominate American enterprise and economy and they’ve become the symbol of innovation in the digital age, advancing the fields of AI, robotics, and medicine. More so, they’re some of our greatest hopes for scientific solutions to impending crises such

President Gets Souped Up Blackberry

By John J. Fanning on April 23, 2009

President Obama will be getting a high-security, high-tech BlackBerry for his personal use administration officials have said in an exclusive report in the Washington Times. More…

Sun Dimmest In 100 Years – Scientists Baffled!

By John J. Fanning on April 22, 2009

Sunspots have disappeared, so have solar flares as our Sun has gone all but dormant in the heavens baffling astronomers and leading some to speculate of an impeding ice age or other calamitous event on the horizon. More…