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The Unspoken Truths from the Entrepreneurial Trenches
Ashwin Gulati ’90 dismantles the myths, ambitions, and raw realities of a startup culture where 97% of ventures fail. So why do entrepreneurs keep lining up? Why do VCs keep funding them? And what isn’t working? In this…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unspoken-truths-entrepreneurial-trenchesFree Speech Rights and Wrongs: Current Controversies
In an interview format with two CMC students, Nadine Strossen, professor emerita at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), will address pressing questions abou…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/free-speech-rights-and-wrongs-current-controversiesIt’s Not the Law, It’s the Practice—Strategies for Human Rights Protection and Resilience
Enforcement of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is under siege—due to weakened institutional capacity, authoritarian resistance, threats to civil society, and shrinking political will. Core values and norms of just…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/its-not-law-its-practice-strategies-human-rights-protection-and-resilienceRecalibrating the Global Trading System
The Trump Administration is upending America's post-war role in leading and maintaining a rules-based global trading system. US trade policy is being designed to extract concessions from partners, reduce the trade defic…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/recalibrating-global-trading-systemEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was mean…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/empire-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-sam-altmans-openaiIran’s Rise and Retreat in the Shadow of American Missteps
Hussein Banai, associate professor of international studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will chart the dramatic rise and gradual unraveling of Iran’s regional influence between 2005 and 2025, a period marked by b…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/irans-rise-and-retreat-shadow-american-misstepsThe Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
In her latest book, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, Wendy Lower, the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Right…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ravine-family-photograph-holocaust-massacre-revealedBuilding a Supportive Community for Art and Artists
As a former dancer, now choreographer and teacher, Theodore “Ted” Thomas believes that artists are a mirror of the human condition and, in many cases, recorders of time and history. Though artists feel that their art is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/building-supportive-community-art-and-artistsImplications of the 2025 L.A. Wildfires for California’s Residential Insurance Market
Lloyd Dixon, director of the RAND Kenneth R. Feinberg Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation and senior economist at RAND, will discuss the evolving challenges in insuring properties against wildfire r…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/implications-2025-la-wildfires-californias-residential-insurance-marketCivitas Session 8: Democracy v. Republic? Implications for Modern America
Ioannis (Yannis) D. Evrigenis, the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics, will join moderator Vernon C. Grigg III, J.D., Executive Director of the Kravis Lab for Civic Leadership, for a unique discussion…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/civitas-session-8-democracy-v-republic-implications-modern-america