Ideas Week

A conversation on the future of the highest court in the land

by Emmanuel Camarillo on October 22, 2018 at 6:10PM

"The single most important responsibility of the Supreme Court is to protect the minority," said Stone. Minority in this case isn't used as a demographic qualifier but as a way to describe public opinion.

‘Tackling Taboos’: A conversation on redefining our own truths

by Marissa De La Cerda on October 22, 2018 at 3:38PM

"I honestly feel like telling the truth has become taboo," said author and digital strategist Luvvie Ajayi to an audience at the Chicago Ideas Week event "Tackling Taboos." The night was broken up into three conversations, a performance, and a talk and addressed conventionally taboo subjects including porn, sex, and religion.

#TimesUp: What's Next? Chicago Ideas Week conversation discusses the next steps for the movement

by Marissa De La Cerda on October 17, 2018 at 5:00PM

Earlier this year, the #TimesUp legal initiative was launched to provide steps for women across all career industries who have been sexually harassed in the workplace, but now many women are asking, "where do we go from here?" Chicago Ideas Week hosted a conversation last night titled #TimesUp: What’s Next with activists and experts Amber Tamblyn, Saru Jayamaran, Tina Tchen, and Celeste Headlee to answer this question, offering some suggestions for next steps and examining areas where change needs to occur the most.

Thanks to smartphones, we're now in the golden age of reading

by Mara Shalhoup on October 12, 2012 at 6:51AM

If you tune in at all to the near-constant chatter about the precarious state of quality journalism, you’ve probably heard that the digital revolution is largely to blame for quality journalism's decline—that publishers beholden to smartphones and social networks are guilty of rewarding consumers with short attention spans, and that, as a result, those attention spans continue to shrink. How, then, does the Reader ethos fit into the brave new world of digital news consumption?

Has Chicago's Fed president saved our economy?

by Asher Klein on October 10, 2012 at 9:15AM

Besides the threat on Big Bird's life, all I can remember from last week's presidential debate is the bickering over whose jobs package is bigger. The economy was always going to be the central issue of this campaign, so you'd think both Romney and Obama would have prepared clearer policies than "I'll add more natural gas jobs than the other guy."

A recipe for good ideas?

by Ben Sachs on October 9, 2012 at 6:50AM

I don't know where I learned this (it's likely apocryphal), but Salvador Dali purportedly developed a special method to capture his unconscious ideas. When drowsy, he'd sit over a plate holding a spoon; as soon as he started to fall asleep, his hand would relax, the spoon would hit the plate, and the sound would rouse him enough to record what had passed through his mind as he was losing control over it.

"Hey, I have an idea," this week on the Bleader

by Tal Rosenberg on October 8, 2012 at 8:47AM

Today marks the first day of Chicago Ideas Week, a festival/conference/seminar from now until Sunday that features a range of presentations and events, all seemingly about "ideas" . . . but not really.

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