University of Chicago

Why should it be shameful to study the Classics?

30 May 2026 9:00 am

Mary Beard offers an intelligent defence of the time-honoured subject amid calls to denounce it as a tool of racism, fascism or imperialism

How to make economists fight like ferrets in a sack

6 January 2018 9:00 am

One of the funniest passages of writing I have read in the past few years appears within the pages of…