“Nobody still believes that government bureaucracy can solve a problem better than private citizens.” My friend told me this my first year. I, the young, idealistic progressive who spent the summer working for the Kerry/Edwards campaign, retorted, “Of course the government can fix problems.” That summer my room was lined with posters: “A change is...

The winter dubbed the “quarter of our discontent” by me and my friends turned out to be the most active quarter of campus politics I can remember in my three years at the U of C. Despite a bitter cold winter, students were out in full form: protesting the Administration’s stance on divestment, graduate students...