university of austin. mike retired . . sorry, i should have remembered. but bumy conception of chicago literature is broader than those people. i include film, comic books, newspapers. i include tourist brochures. these are all ways of interpreting place and what mitchell's reaction was to discovering royko work later and i did as a child to read a newspaper just speaks tothe way that we have to understand he is central to this kind of literature . there is bias and you know this personally against newspaper writing. it's just act work. you turn it out every day. what is yesterday's paper's lines of birdcage or dead fish or cat litter boxes, the other one i always forget and that's just nonsense . great writing can be published in newspapers as well as literary journals or novels and one of the three steps i using convincing my students of this is not easy to . this year one of my students a one-page response to royko the lead sentence and i just told them what the lead waswhat i have never read a newspaper . and this is a really smart young person at a really great university.she was

true of l major top universities but i think thatt is true of the three universities reflected here on the panel and you know i would charge you to identify when other than the university of chicagonot feel that way. >> okay, sir moderator, these institutions of the media focus on right and harvard a group of students but in a statement people act as if it was something from an estate. i know this was from you know any other fine universities by the country would not a going anywhere so i sent thinkable conservatives out there universitiesly and certainly rit about us, but texas a&m, other places come there a lot of places with airk conservatives. the focus is on point swing on an ice hope is right, for the most part, academics tend to be more liberal but i do think that's really don't think it is just that because conservative forces. >> we, clarify anything is significantly selection service people seeking other places to be but i think will ago really think the academy is that open toto them printed more conservative you know sort of person they would be jumping to go for 95 percent of the people that's hard. >> and i think that that premise is safety and pointing to self-sele

that at one hundreds, you know, a hundred plus schools ultimately every school, including university of chicagothe paragon of, you know free speech, shut down encampment is an indication that, you know, at the end of the day, that's what you kind of have to do. and i think a lot schools did actually try to negotiate with the students, but for the most part, students weren't that interested in negotiating because they that the school couldn't really do that much to them. and they were trying to make a point and you don't make a point by negotiation you make a point by provoking. yeah well one thing is you were speaking out say that one difference between the time was talking about in the eighties and now certainly donors always have always been interested in what goes on at the university but there's a new sort of billionaire thing has sort of changed the climate a bit here with people being very, very aggressive about, you know, what about interfering sort of the running of the schools in ways that that probably, i don't think was as prevalent as it is today. and so with social media, the thing

then finally one more time comes out from the university of chicago press and at least one person hereby that book a student mine is here. and so teaching those columns became absolutely central to teaching chicago literature. and at some point today, i can, you know, go on at length about that. but basically, you know, if you were someone who paid attention in chicago and read the newspapers, you read royko, even if you didn't with him, you grappled them and that kind of omnipresence is not the world we live in now. and that's one reason why i'm such an ardent supporter now, i want people to remember a time when we had common texts to argue about again, agree or disagree, like or dislike, take it into account. so that's that's my take on it. and i can get into the literature stuff in the newberry exhibit more after mitch gets his shot. mitch, your relatively new to the royko gang. how did you discover room? you weren't. you don't read them as a kid. well no. i grew up in the burbs. we didn't you know, i up i went to college age and that's when he passed so, you know, i wasn't you don'

a new poll by the associated press and university of chicago found more than two thirds of voters felt anxious going into next tuesday. that's higher than the same poll before the 2020 election. is there anything you can do to lower your stress level here? let's bring in doctor nina vasan, a professor of psychiatry at stanford. doctor, nice to have you on the program. this is fascinating. people are anxious here. what does that mean? how does that manifest? absolutely. well, first of all, good evening. and thank you for having me just a few days before the election. you know, really, what i'm seeing is exactly like your correspondent was, was talking about unprecedented levels of anxiety. what that's leading to. it's interesting. it's both a cause and effect of, in particular, media over consumption. people are just spending hours and hours on social media. and when there's anxiety, there's this sense of, oh, but if i read one more article, maybe i'll feel better then. but instead it actually makes things worse. doctor austin, why do elections bring this out in all of us is because the

further acts of violence in the future. robot pays as a professor of political science at the university of chicago, and he's joining us live from chicago professor. thank you very much for your time . so i read your very detailed article on how many american support political violence bad news is. it's many millions, good news, the majority doesn't. and why don't you say that it is across the political spectrum? do you think one presidential candidate has done more to stoke it? i'm thinking about what donald trump said just days ago about the fuller republican rule making. this cheney he called had a radical hook and said she should see how it feels to face guns trained on her face. yes, it is the case that as you just reported from our surveys of national support for political violence in the united states, the rationally seem disturbingly high levels of support for political violence, both to restore trump to the presidency and then to prevent from from the presidency and the 10s of millions on each side. the fact of the matter is that there's one of the 2 political candidates, donald trump, tha

center david chrisinger is executive director of the public policy writing workshop at the university of chicago harris school of public policy. no relation to me or know his name, write and director of writing seminars for the war house, an award winning nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on the human impact of military service is the author of several books, including the soldier's truth ernie pyle and the story of over two and stories are what saved two survivors. god to writing about trauma. and he's won the george orwell award. so we'd really like to welcome him today as he speaks about ernie pyle and his work. welcome, david. a guitar. that that was my fault because people always ask me, how do you pronounce your name? and. i sometimes say, you know, call me whatever you want. just don't call me late for dinner. but. i told him it's like kissinger. but it's chris. and that's probably just put it in there is india is mine. so apologies for that. thank you all for being here today, especially on a rainy saturday. i'm sure you could think of other things to do, but you chose to be here

any university of chicago. she is a member of the council on foreign relations trilateral commission the international security forms agenda and serves on the board of national democratic and that woman's foreign policy group. 2021 and 2022 included her as one of their most influential people shaping policy. she will introduce tonight speaker and moderate the q&a it's my pleasure to welcome you to the podium i want to apologize it's hot in the room we had a problem with the ac today it's very hot at times so i apologize for that. >> thank you professor part i just want to echo our apologies and explanation. the universe to switch over from ac to heat mode, it happened over the weekend and here we are it's kind of warm and toasty. that's about the shades down in the back let me echo welcome to the elliott school welcome to gw it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to tonight's lecture. we have the great honor this evening hosting ambassador richard verma for our fall lecture this evening but he serveded as

from harvard college and from the university of chicago. is a member of the council on foreign relations to national security forum's agenda group, served on the board of directors and woman's foreign policy group. in 2021-22, the washington opinion, one of the most influential people shaping policy. and introduce tonight's speaker. and i want to apologize it is really hot in the room. really apologize for that. >> thank you, i want to echo our apology and explanation, the university has switched over from ac to heat mode. it happened over the weekend and here we aren't it is kind of warm and cozy. let me just echo, welcome to the elliott school and gw, my pleasure to welcome all of you tonight. we have a great honor this evening of hosting ambassador richard verma for our fall lecture this evening, he served as deputy secretary of state for management and resources. in this role, he served as chief operating officer of the us department of state and leads the department's efforts on modernization, foreign assistance and a wide range of work

after graduating with a jd from university of chicago law school he first clerked for a judge on the u.s. court of appeals and then worked for a private law form. then he joined the u.s. department of justice as senior counsel to the deputy attorney general focused on national security issues. he filed that as a deputy director advisor to the white house national security council and then served at opec as chief counsel deputy director and director. first we will hear from the undersecretary smith who will deliver his prepared remarks. then he has agreed to spend some time with us on stage so aba senior vice president of finance heather will join him on stage for a fireside chat on several critical issues. first join me in welcoming to the conference acting undersecretary brad smith. [applause] ♪ >> i am so excited to be here this morning. i will confess, i have never actually come into an event with theme music so my day has already started very strongly. i will also confess and i feel bashful about this, this is actually my first time attending aba. i was supposed to be her last yea

some were accepted to schools like university of chicago and georgetown but chose uatx for what it is the northeast of the u.s., and the student guiding me there was like, we have different dorms for different student groups. i didn't want to go to a space like that. >> why do you think it's important to be at a college where differing views aren't just accepted and tolerated, but welcome? >> we're actually listening to the other side and understanding each other. still we're friends with each other. i immediately disagree with many of the things jacob says. i think you do -- >> it's likewise. >> but we get along pretty well. it's a beautiful thing. >> not exactly the vibe on other campuses. long before hamas attacked israel on october 7th, colleges have been sites of protests and have leaned left. but the atmosphere has intensified over the past decade. speakers shouted down. >> you're not listening. >> professors canceled when students feel unheard. [ crowd chanting ] >> then the reckoning this past year. campus chaos led first to congressional hearings -- >> miss mcgill, the fact i

economists with the university of chicago have overwhelmingly said that americans will pay those tariffs in the form of higher taxes and mass deportations could deprive some industries of workers and that could cause them to lift wages and lift prices. but it's all going to come down to how this is implemented. and we'll be waiting to see, because, listen, a lot is at stake. people are very frustrated with the cost of living and the last thing they want is for prices to go even higher. >> thank you so much for the report. ahead this hour, republicans have an ambitious agenda. we'll take a look at what they hope to accomplish during the second trump protest if in the meantime, democrats are huddling to figure out what went wrong. we'll talk to one of the lawmakers who made a strong case for why president biden should drop out. >> plus, rudy giuliani is in court after failing to turn over assets in his defamation case, including the very car that he was seen riding in this week. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> as of this moment, we still don't know which party will control the house

the other rock stars from the first term, casey mulligan from the university of chicago.in hasset and people like that would be good news for growth. in business and finance, when you talk about these guys, they are guys that know the bond markets and they understand the international currency markets. very important as a treasury secretary when we are carrying as much as debt as we are. this is going to take careful management here. on the tariff question, it is interesting. i think one of the reasons, and you have probably heard this. people on wall street and the business community generally are not too down about the tariff threat, because they look at someone like scott bessett or ludnik and they understand that it is a cost and a necessary evil. they don't look at tariffs as a wonderful thing for themselves, but a necessary tool to negotiate. bessent has talked about escalate to deescalate. it is fuzzy to know where the tariffs are going to be used. but these guys have to say they are on board with using this tool for economic and geopolitical purposes as he wants t

the speech at university of chicago. the supposition was we have many general laws applied. also forces that keep people and cause harm and get. mary care. we don't have a law of the horse, we have general laws that apply to all and there was no need for specific laws to address those arms. >> we are focused on enforcing the law. the system and the fcc and state attorney general's to approach these unfair acts. our perspective is this conduct we don't recognize and they fail to stop the conduct. there is reports that apply this determination. the supreme court saturday federal law material that is or appears to be. you have this minimal ground. what it is indistinguishable from, that provision has largely been untested. the rules of the road, what can say about whether there is no gap in the law. we have to federal criminal and there is a narrative. to think they have no recourse but they were victimized. the material is an image of a minor. it is applied to the material and sustained convictions to reveal very confident about that. it is a-uppercase-letter and covers a.i. ge

studies, the chairman of the policy on -- and digital advisory board and policy fellow at the university of chicago energy policy institute. he knows his stuff. our subject today is preserving north american energy security and aligning our policy and intent. i think quite a bit of what we heard today talks a lot about how canada in the u.s. together have really not just talked about becoming an energy powerhouse but a dominant force in the energy sector in the world. i think especially the lunchtime panel hammer that home in ways that i think some of us were blown out of our seats thinking about how strong the relationship has been in terms of output and production. i want to talk about how can we grow that output and production by thinking about aligning our policy but also the intent behind our policy to grow that. i will put the question to the panel. in order to realize this, tom put it earlier, the building of the arsenal of energy for democracy. what kind of things do we need to do that canada and the united states need to do, to align our energy and climate policy across the border? steve,

the norc at the university of chicago surveyed 120 voters all over the country leading up to and on election and you will not see this anywhere else. and we have some new technology that will feature this data that we are just getting a first look at right now. so let's dig in to some of our key findings so far. this could be the story of big change, what we are seeing as far as this analysis is concerned so far people are looking for big change in this election. those that responded, 26% says they are looking for total upheaval, 56% say they are looking for substantial change. so, you are talking about 8 in 10 voters that want big change. so keep watching that. that could be a big data point to follow throughout the evening. why do they want that big change? so many say they don't like the direction this country's going in. look at this number. those that believe that we're moving in the wrong directions in this country, 70%. of voters. why is that key? that is 10 points higher than it was in 2020. so keep that in mind. i mentioned some of our new technology. this is our heat map. it gives

friedrich hayek wrote, the great austrian economist who taught at the university of chicago for many, won a nobel prize in 1976 if i'm not mistaken, he argued for competing current says. to keep the federal reserve and other central banks honest. the clip to to revolution could be -- cryptorevolution could be a competing currency. and that would be a good thing, would it not? >> it would definitely be a good thing. you do want to have competing currencies. you don't want your central banks becoming too complacent, which they did. that's one of the reasons why we had this inflationary explosion. if you have a market check on the excesses of central banking which a competing currency and a cryptocurrency could provide to, you'll be much, much better off. the economists have been out to lunch. 9 i think they're going to be humiliateed. they're all still -- i mean, they already have been. they're saying there's going to be massive inflation. just yesterday the walmart had their earning call, and there were headlines saying walmart say says they're going to raise prices. that's wrong. wal

so for varying degree training 2024, it was administered online at the university of chicago. the sample size is 1705 american adults with oversample of black, latinx, and asian american. we imagine the finding margin of error plus .12 percentage point. and if there is one thing you want to take away from my presentations today, i really hope it is this one. americans' opinion of high opinion are complex. just because a number came out saying there's a public, there's a decline in public confidence for colleges and university doesn't mean that americans no longer value high education. as you will see when you like some of the data i've shown this year and also in a report, you will see a lot of conflicting result. all those data combined, they will tell us a comprehensive narrative of how americans truly feel about higher education and that is clear and they want a lot of things to change. but they still believe that high education is worth the return on investment and they want to send their children to college. we need to work on how to make it work better for them. so with e

so, for varying degrees in 2024 it was administered on a line at the university of chicago. the sample size for the survey is 1700 five american adults. we submitted to surveys and in march, 24. with a margin of errors of plus and -3.12%. if there is one thing you want to take away from my presentation today, i hope it says. americans opinion of higher education doesn't change just because a number came out saying colleges and universities. it does not mean americans no longer value higher education. as you will see, when you -- like some of the data i have shown, also in the report. you see a lot of conflicting results. all of the data combined will tell us a comprehensive narrative of how americans feel about higher education and they aren't happy, that's clear. they want to a lot of things to change. and they still believe higher education is worth the return on investment. and if they want to send students to college. we need to work on how to make it work better for them. with eight years of data now we are able to see how americans opinions on a variety of higher educat

of a political education black politics and education reform in chicago. since 1960s and associate professor of history and affiliated faculty members in black studies at the university of illinois chicago. a research and teachings focus on us urban history, african american history, the history of education and education policy, a frequent public speaker she also organized special develop workshops and curricula on african-american history, urban education and racial justice. moderator steven thrasher will join me in a second, the author of the award-winning book the viral underclass which won the award for best in literature and a long list finalist for the galbraith award and carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction literature, he recently finished writing the overseer class which will be published by, starbucks and harpercollins publishing. please give a warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you so much for joining us on this gloriously beautiful chicago day. it is my great honor to share with you the culture, a really brilliant book and i would like to say before we move into our panel this book is filled with so much love and so much education by arionne nettles

of a political education black politics in education reform in chicago . since the 1960s and associate professor of history and affiliated faculty members and black studies at the university of illinois chicago . her research ngfocuses on us urban history african-american history, history of education and educating policies. she also organizes professional development workshops and develops curriculum on african-american history urban education and racial justice . moderator stephen thrasher will join me in a second and they are the author of the award-winning book the viral underclass which won the pod award for best in literature and was a long list finalist for the pen john kenneth galbraith award and the party medal for excellence in nonfiction literature . he recently finished writing over slayer class which will be published by anna starbucks and harpercollins . give a warm welcome to all participating. >> thank you for joining us on this gloriously beautiful chicago day and it's my great honor to get to share with you about we are the culture which is a brilliant book . i would like to say before we move into our panel this book is filled with so much love and dedi

he's an expert advisor for the center for panel survey sciences at the university of chicago and associate editor the quarterly journal of political science, a two time emmy nominated senior election analyst for nbc news. and so much more. so we are thrilled that we could get somebody who really knows this stuff to come and speak us tonight. so without further ado, let's please welcome dr. joshua clinton joshua clinton, what you are well to kind so you see, when i tell people to talk about polling, their first reaction is something like this, right whenever we think about the polls like, well, they screw that up again, right. and this is a cartoon from 2008, right. this is when we actually had some idea of what we're doing. i think what we're doing nowadays and it's even worse. right. and so part of the reason i know that is because i had the pleasure, pleasure making bad life. one of them was to be agreed to be by the american association of public opinion researcher to lead the task force and try to figure what went wrong in the polling. pre-election polls in 2020. and so if you are arou

of a political education black politics and education report in chicago. since the 1960s and associate professor eaof history and affiliated faculty members in black studies at the university of illinois chicago . her research focuses on us urban history african-americanhistory , history of aeducation and education policies . a frequent public speaker she organizes development workshops and develops curriculum on african-american history urban education and racial justice. moderator stephen thrasher will join me in a second and they are the author of the award-winning book the viral underclass which one the pov award for best in literature one of the long list finalist for the pcm american john galway award and the carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction literature. he recently finished writing overseer class which will be published by amistad books . please give a warm welcome to all participating. [applause] >> steven thrasher: thank you so much and thank you everyone for joining us on this gloriously beautiful chicago day. it is my great honor to get to share with you about we are the culture which is a brilliant book and i would like to say before we move into our

regulation to capture an industry like the nobel prize winner used to write about out of the university of chicago think of what happened with grand blighly, with the end of glass steel, the 1990s deregulation, that set up the ability through deregulation to have a regulatory backdrop that still forced a bailout in 2008. it allowed banks to do things that were unsavory. and ultimately it blew us up. so as you are rewriting the regulatory structure, through deregulation or more regulation, having the insiders, having the industry write that is always a dangerous game. what i'm happy to see in many of the positions as we go into a deregulatory environment is not executives from the biggest parts of the industry that have already captured a lot being a part of the deregulatory unwind. that made me very happy when i saw scott's name. and i think marc rowan is an outsider as well. these are not the insiders of the commercial banking industry. so i'm really getting very positive on the deregulation train from a short-term perspective and also alongterm perspective. what you worry about is that you can t

there is a story instance in 1996 of judge frank easterbrook giving a speech at the university of chicago entitled cyberspace and the horse. we have many general laws that apply to specific instances. we also have horses that we sell. we have horses that kick people and cause harmful we have horses that get substandard veterinarian area and there are remedies for that. but we don't have a law of the horse. we have general laws that apply to all this and his argument in 1996 was there was no need for specific laws in cyberspace to address those harms. i'm not sure that he has a valid argument today as we look back. i guess the question to the panel is, is ai a horse? are there specific laws that we need? are there gaps in the current laws that we have? let me start with allistair and ross on that. >> my best answer is maybe. i think that aware very focused on enforcing the laws we have. certainly in the fraud context. the fraud laws, wire fraud and others are very broad. they tend to cover conduct for people to intentionally cause harm. there are other legal structures beyond the criminal

of a political education, black politics and education reform in chicago. since the 1960s and associate professor of history and affiliated faculty member in black studies at the university of illinois, chicago. her research teaching focus on u.s. urban history, african-american history, the history of education and education policy. a frequent public speaker. she also organizes professional development workshops and develops curricula on african-american history urban education and racial justice. moderator stephen is going to join me up in a second. and they are author of the award winning debut book the viral underclass, which won the posey award for best literature and was a long list finalist for the p.e. and american john galbraith award and the carnegie medal excellence in nonfiction literature. he recently finished writing the overseas year class, which will be published by amistad books and harper collins publishing. please give a warm welcome to all participating. thank you so and thank you everyone for joining us on this glorious sleep beautiful chicago day. it is my great honor to get to share with you about we are the culture which is a really, really brilli

i just gave a speech at the university of chicago not long ago, in the front hall was a bunch of scientistsired and censored and blocked on social media. many were vindicated and some were the leading in their field and how many of them have been reinstated. and those were suspended for what they wrote about and now they're not on faculties anymore, it's why it's a dangerous free speech trade-offs and i don't believe in those because i've heard them before. [applause] >> let's go in order. kenji, of course, any response you could make? or you can just agree. [laughter] >> that is an option. and then i think you are convinced that the meta model of an independent board of experts is an effective one for social media. tell us why. what are the characteristics institutional arrangements to make it a success and do you think it could move to others as well. >> and i'd like so respond, and first, to nadine, i think that the holocaust denial case, i'll get in trouble with my board members if i don't respond. not the most opposite-- i realize this is my fault because i answered the question with t

the university of chicago managed to get through the great university crisis by essentially saying heyvery whim to make a comment of this is an outrage, that's an outrage, and i think what you'll see in ceos is a similar movement. speak about issues that are really relevant to your employees, your community, your industry, but there's always an employee, a supplier or a customer who wants to pull you to make a statement that in the end is more political than it is economic. >> yeah. finally, i mean, obviously you and i knew each other for years when you were running thompson reuters. the news business, it's changing dramatically and not for the better necessarily for the larger organizations or the like. what is your sense there in terms of what that's looking like now and will look like over the next four years? >> well, first, i have to say steve hasker that runs t.r. is doing a fantastic job. the company is a lot different than it was in my period, but a lot of the businesses we bought have been successfully sold off adding to the success. you know, to me the saddest thing about the

studies, the chairman of the policy on -- and digital advisory board and policy fellow at the university of chicago energy policy institute. he knows his stuff. our subject today is preserving north american energy security and aligning our policy and intent. i think quite a bit of what we heard today talks a lot about how canada in the u.s. together have really not just talked about becoming an energy powerhouse but a dominant force in the energy sector in the world. i think especially the lunchtime panel hammer that home in ways that i think some of us were blown out of our seats thinking about how strong the relationship has been in terms of output and production. i want to talk about how can we grow that output and production by thinking about aligning our policy but also the intent behind our policy to grow that. i will put the question to the panel. in order to realize this, tom put it earlier, the building of the arsenal of energy for democracy. what kind of things do we need to do that canada and the united states need to do, to align our energy and climate policy across the border? steve,

he's now a professor at the university of chicago. i want to thank you for joining us.with you, joel. you put out a tweet, i think you might have deleted. but you seem very concerned about it. i want to try to understand exactly what your concerns are at this point. >> good morning. the big concern is that tariffs are taxes. we know that at the end of the day, it is businesses and families in the united states that bare the cost of tariffs. and canada and mexico are two would have our biggest trading partners. we have a longstanding relationship on free trade thanks to nafta. we have seen an economic boom since nafta was passed, real family incomes have raised by $28,000 per year and our total manufacturing is up 40% during those four decades of free trade. if we actually did see a 25% universal tariff placed n the imports from canada and mexico, just on those two countries alone that would result of 15 hundreds of year after annual taxes on american families. a lot of us don't think of all the products that we get he from mexico. if you look at the top ten lists like b

this comes from the university of stanford at chicago. wspaper articles, shows that increase in uncertainty, likely linked to the unknowns of the trump administration, tariff policy and a lack of clarity on taxes and deficits. that same uncertainty extends to what the fed does in part because of uncertainty over fiscal policy, so kelly, the december rate cut probability, now at about 53%, about 50/50 or a flip of a coin. >> a coin flip, wow. there have been so many meetings like this that are truly live this year, steve. that's interesting. stay with us, because there was some optimism in today's data as well. the s&p global flash services pmi for the u.s. rose to 57 in november. that's a near three-year high, even with manufacturing remaining somewhat soft, 48.8. slight increase from october but still suggests contraction is below 50. my next guest says tariffs have him worried about growth. he's the chief economist at wells fargo, and jay, it's great to see you. kind of tie this all together for us. what are these data points telling you