Dan

I feel so much contempt for the president and trustees of the University of Chicago. What they are doing to it is unforgivable. The traditional Core, however imperfect, was peerless. It was a whole world unto itself. Without it, the College is just another college.

There are self-serving political reasons for this too, but ideologically, this flows directly from getting housing issues wrong. Left-NIMBYism is a serious conceptual error that will lead them into a political dead end, or cause them to abandon left politics entirely

I and the Viennese have been saying …

It's worth noting that while James Redfield was one of a kind, he was also probably the final living avatar of the Hutchins vision of the University of Chicago. With him, a whole world passes.

CDOT Commissioner Cheaks should announce on Monday morning that the city will be phasing out "door zone" bike lanes starting immediately, as they are inherently deadly.

With Sonny Rollins an era passes.

It's the same as the time I tried to get my toddler to try ice cream and he screamed and cried and insisted he hated it. He was wrong, obviously. So are the transportation haters. A better world is possible and even they would love it

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

I would reply if I could to ask, is there any viable path to annexation of at least many of these? It seems like the most just path forward for the city and region, and yet politically all but impossible

Urbanism isn't just a pet issue, it's a broad vision of what our way of life should be in urbanized society. It is essential, not incidental, to a viable social-democratic or socialist politics. Both philosophically and practically, it's a prerequisite for plural, egalitarian democratic society

PSA to any Dems who plan on running for president in 2028: now is the perfect time to call for Schumer to step down and for the 8 Vichy Dems to be primaried

With tonight's shameful surrender, this assessment sadly still looks right.

One of the most important discoveries of social science is that our lived experience—no matter how sincerely felt and accurately reported—can nevertheless be false. So lived experience, though never to be lightly dismissed, cannot be the foundation of a political epistemology.