University of Chicago, absent its present identification with a certain national leader, is as good a university as there is in the US. Until recently I’d sooner have said I went to U of C than Harvard. (as it is, I went to neither)
It was formerly associated with Milton Friedman. Unfortunately, it seems it’s being taken over by an entirely new crowd. The current faculty revolted at the school’s naming a division in honor of Dr. Friedman.
I graduated from the University of Chicago - when I was there it still held very high standards but it still had its carefully nurtured quota of hard lefties - it has always been so. Example: the recent Alumni magazine included a 1946 (yes, that was 63 years ago) female graduate of the University raging on about those nasty old ‘teabaggers’ that pick on the big 0. She was apparently very familiar with the term in its crude colloquial sense.
From the general tone communicated in the Alumni magazine, my impression is that the University student body is desperately scrambling to join the Ivy League-rs (Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc.) and the socialist wanna-bes at UC-Berkeley and Duke at the very bottom of the intellectual pile.