Why this lifelong White Sox fan will root for the Cubs
Chicago neighborhoods are roughly divided into six sides, ranging from Southeast to Northwest, but there are only two baseball teams — the North Side Cubs and the South Side White...
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In defense of Judge Turner (sort of)
Judge Valarie Turner, of the Circuit Court of Cook County, is a very smart person who appears to have done a very dumb thing. While presiding over her call in...
Here’s betting a computer can’t play poker
IBM's Deep Blue has apparently "solved" the game of chess — having defeated the reigning human world champion in 1997. Much more recently, Google's AlphaGo defeated an 18-time world Go...
Move forward on filling Scalia’s Supreme Court seat
President Barack Obama intends to fulfill his constitutional role by nominating a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Republicans in the Senate, however, have already declared that...
Ben Carson, a paternity case and the death penalty
There are now 392 people on death row in Florida, and they may soon find an unlikely champion in GOP presidential contender Ben Carson. Not that Carson opposes capital punishment...
It’s time, U. of I.: Offer controversial scholar Steven Salaita a job
The University of Illinois should bite the bullet and offer a job to controversial scholar Steven Salaita, who was denied an appointment by the Urbana-Champaign campus last year due to...
Let us pour some cold water on that California sunshine
When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was a brisk 36 degrees, which was not unusual along our chilly lakefront. The calendar said April, but the weather did...
Does Northwestern student group aim to respect Palestine or demonize Israel?
Does respect for Palestinian human rights require American universities to refrain from owning stock in companies that provide military supplies to Israel? Or is the BDS movement (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions)...
Professor’s tweets about Israel crossed the line
Controversial scholar Steven Salaita — who has been most benignly described as "deeply critical of Israel" — has been fired or "non-hired" by the University of Illinois, depending on which...
NOTES FROM DEEP IN THE HEART(BURN) OF TEXAS
Fate takes me to Texas about once every five or 10 years. Naturally, I always expect to find the state pretty much the way I left it. Americans count on...