This week in Sightings, Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School, Department of History, and the Committee on the History of Culture, discusses Pope Francis’ recent visit to Chile and the notion of “papal infallibility.”
Jerry Coyne, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and author of numerous works on speciation and evolution, recently reviewed A.N. Wilson’s new book, “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker.” Coyne says “its most infuriating flaw is its abysmal failure to get the most basic facts right.”
More than 100 U of C faculty members who say they support the location of an Obama Center near the campus nevertheless are opposing plans for it on economic and preservation grounds. The signers include such luminaries as Neil Harris, a history professor emeritus, divinity professor Wendy Doniger and political scientist Charles Lipson.
