How Liberal is UChicago?

marlowe1
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:03:17 +0000

Among us friends at BJ in the sixties there was much political talk. We were all somewhere on the Left except for one fellow who was an avowed conservative. Most of us admired the guy for going against the grain and being willing to stand his ground and defend his views. Arguing was the staff of life, within the Left as between Left and Right (or about nothing political at all). I sometimes suspected that our ostentatiously conservative classmate played up his orientation just for the sake of provoking argument. Anyhow, it did him no harm and possibly a bit of good. I trust that that tradition remains alive and well at Chicago.