Milt Rosenberg

Folks, this is Matt Rosenberg, Milt’s son. Since Milt passed away in 2018 I’ve tried to shepherd his archive of radio shows from his 38 years at WGN-AM in Chicago. We have about 400 episodes at https://miltrosenberg.com/ and I encourage you to explore the free site. Earlier this year I was able to donate thousands of old tapes of Milt’s show to the Northwestern University Library Special Collections division. They will be cataloging the holdings and eventually creating a searchable database of materials. While we would all love to have digitization of the entire archive that’s just not in the cards. There are additional episodes out there online. If there is a particular episode you are seeking please check the website. If it’s not there, I’m afraid I can’t help. On behalf of my late father, I want to thank all of his fans and listeners for their interest and support. The best way to keep Milt’s legacy alive is for all of us to keep exploring the world of knowledge and civil discourse. It’s what he would have wanted. ** With respect, Matt Rosenberg.

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Milt's son Matt here. Merry Christmas to all. Here's a great stocking stuffer: my 2021 book, "What Next Chicago? Notes Of A Pissed-Off Native Son." Timely as can be. "Matt Rosenberg writes about the Chicago Way in the Chicago Style of a Mike Royko...It’s a coherent, honest and balanced tour of the city’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd-awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, What Next? is no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers." - Dennis Byrne, former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member.

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A string of murders of University of Chicago students has unnerved Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Epistemology has long been taught there: one definition "has to do with the study of the limits of knowledge, including what can we actually do with it? As crime surges on local streets, the University’s president says the school’s expert policy arsenal will be deployed anew to fight violence. But we’ve long known a lot; yet done too little."

Guest column-Matt Rosenberg: As Deadly Crime Mounts, Liberal, Educated Hyde Park Gets Schooled on Epistemology - John Kass By Matt Rosenberg   I grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, home to the University of Chicago. My Dad taught there. In our apartment building’s elevator, we’d encounter neighbors like Saul Bellow and Milton Friedman. At the university, urban affairs was central. It’s where the Chicag...

I was on The Ingraham Angle last Friday with Laura Ingraham, at Fox News. We talked about my new book "What Next, Chicago? Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son." Topics included local elections, courts and bail reform, prosecutor Kim Foxx, and public schools. Click on the YouTube headline below or this link, to play.

Ingraham Angle - Laura Ingraham interview with Matt Rosenberg on 10/15/2021 Laura Ingraham interviews author Matt Rosenberg.

Friends, Milt's son Matt here (yes, that's me). Today my book about Chicago's future is published. It's stiff medicine for the city. The Amazon link is https://www.amazon.com/dp/1642939080/ - the book is only via Amazon and soon B&N online, not in stores. I'm in Chicago for a few months and happy to do presentations or book talks and signings with groups of purchasers. It's published by Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press * Adam Bellow, editor. Here are some blurbs from other authors.

"What has happened to Chicago? That's Matt Rosenberg's question, and mine as well. His loving tribute to our hometown is a moving, sensitive, humane and trenchant critical assessment. Read it and weep." - Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University, author of "One By One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America," and host of The Glenn Show at substack.com.

"Matt Rosenberg writes about the Chicago Way in the Chicago Style of a Mike Royko...It’s a coherent, honest and balanced tour of the city’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd-awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, What Next? is no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers." - Dennis Byrne, former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member, author of "Madness: The War of 1812."

"Not since author Alex Kotlowitz ventured into Chicago's Henry Horner housing projects has an author offered such a thoughtful and thorough first-hand analysis of the state of urban disrepair. Leaders from cities across America would be well served by reading Matt Rosenberg's account of what's happening in Chicago and how not to make some of the same mistakes.” - Cyrus Krohn, former Publisher, Slate.com, author of “Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy.”

"Matt Rosenberg came of age in Chicago...and "What's Next, Chicago?" is about his return...to see for himself what's gone so terribly wrong in the town once regarded as America's model metropolis. The answer...is...cronyism on a gargantuan scale. Endless race hustling of the ugliest kind. An education system that has given up on the underclass. Corruption (that's) deep and intractable...But Rosenberg's scrupulous investigation is full of unexpected turns, and along the way he encounters those of every station who offer at least some reason for hope. Indeed, notwithstanding his clear-eyed record of the city's decline...his love of the city and its people shine through this brave and important book." - Harry Stein, author, "Why We Won't Talk Honestly About Race."

“Matt Rosenberg digs deep into the reasons why a city with such a strong economy can nonetheless lose its moorings. His take on Chicago’s politicians, schools and crime rates is caustic and impossible to ignore...Rosenberg's chapters grab hold of you, again and again, as he ranges across the most ravaged neighborhoods of the South Side, appreciating the never-quit determination of barbers, donut stand operators and gang members turned Uber drivers.” - George Anders, Senior Editor-at-Large, LinkedIn, and author of “The Rare Find: How Great Talent Stands Out."

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