I would be very interested in HydeSnark’s comments (or those of any other current student) as to whether there are instances of political bias or posturing coming from the profs themselves. In my days, which included the middle stages of the Vietnam war, there were always a few very obvious political profs who wore their views on their sleeves, primarily on the matter of the war. One of the most eminent of these was Hans Morgenthau, who delivered ex cathedra remarks in the lecture hall as well as as a speaker in public forums. There were also some very engaged younger profs who were somewhat pied pipers for the whole SDS contingent of the student body. However, these were exceptions, even in the humanities and social sciences. If anything, I felt that several of the profs I had went out of their way to make the case for religious belief in part as a corrective to the obvious lack thereof in most of their students. They wanted us to think a little more deeply about this and to understand the historical and cultural importance of something that appeared then (not so much so now) to be fading from our hearts and minds. More astoundingly I recall our writer in residence, Richard Stern, saying in a poetry-writing class that you can’t really appreciate the Cantos of Ezra Pound without having read the work of Milton Friedman. Long before he won the Nobel Prize Friedman got a lot of respect at Chicago even from those, like Stern, who were political liberals. The U. of C. has always been a place for mavericks and has always valued brilliant original minds. I believe and hope that culture continues in the classroom today.