Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of…
I Want You to Understand Chicago
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.
Historicale
Test your knowledge of history by ordering events on a timeline. A daily historical chronology challenge.
Notable links: August 14, 2026
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
Why the Clock Broke: America in an Age of Crisis
My lecture at King's College London
The World of Tomorrow (1939 New York World's Fair Documentary)
A Philosophical Game: An Interview with Saul Steinberg by Lauren Kane
November 4, 2021 – Steinberg and George Plimpton discuss how the form of sports reflects on nationhood.
Does Your Brain Think Accurately About Time?
Chicago Booth’s Kristin Donnelly talks about her research on time-duration asymmetry.
FAIR
FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
Another now: dispatches from an alternative present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like?…
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and […]
Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.
