Chicago Thinker staff member Shubh Gupta recently sat down with Harald Uhlig, Professor and former head of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, to discuss Prof. Uhlig’s views on topics ranging from tariffs and monetary policy to college and intellectual courage. Gupta: What are, in your opinion, some of the greatest achievements […]| The Chicago Thinker
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has entered the University of Chicago. On October 14, an international student was detained by ICE personnel on campus grounds before eventually being released. A few days later, a friend of the Thinker witnessed and recorded two masked ICE personnel shove a man into the back of a […]| The Chicago Thinker
When Cam Higby, a rising conservative political commentator known for sparking debate, settled himself in front of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library on October 13th, it was no surprise when he revealed his topic of discussion for the afternoon, setting up a sign reading: “BAN ABORTION! LET’S TALK!” The heated debates that followed Higby’s […]| The Chicago Thinker
On October 27th, multiple alarming anonymous posts were made on the University of Chicago’s Sidechat page, where users are verified as members of the university through logging in with valid UChicago email addresses, threatening to murder TPUSA’s UChicago chapter president and other TPUSA members at a Turning Point USA Booth set up at the university’s Reynolds […]| The Chicago Thinker
The day prior to the October 18th nationwide “No Kings” protest, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made a statement| The Chicago Thinker
Charlie Kirk was a great man. He aimed to change the hearts and minds of millions of young people towards Christ and conservatism, employing nothing other than his voice and intellectual curiosity to foster free speech and open debate with those who disagreed with him. For this, he was brutally murdered in front of nearly […]| The Chicago Thinker
“On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man [Tyler Robinson], I forgive him… I forgive him because it was what Christ did… The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, we know, from the Gospel is love and always love. Love for our […]| The Chicago Thinker
CHICAGO, IL, 10/14/2025 - In a moment where a considerable number of college students and professors celebrated the assassination of| The Chicago Thinker
The University of Chicago is historically known as an institution that protects academic freedom and freedom of speech on its| The Chicago Thinker
On May 10th at the Chicago Thinker’s American Identity Summit, Nikolas Ferreira, a 28-year-old conservative rising star and the most| The Chicago Thinker
If you ever listened to, or had the honor of attending, a crusade led by the late Reverend Billy Graham,| The Chicago Thinker
Amid ongoing uncertainty in federal research funding, particularly from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the University of Chicago’s Biological| The Chicago Thinker
The college process is messy. Try spending some time parsing through the forms, essays, tests, and more forms, and that| The Chicago Thinker
The University of Chicago’s student labor union, Graduate Students United - United Electrical (GSU), has historically allocated graduate student dues| The Chicago Thinker
Allen Sanderson, a senior instructional professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, passed| The Chicago Thinker