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True Memories and Other Falsehoods
Debra K. Tolchinsky’s P'20 in-process documentary examines false memory and false internalized belief within criminal justice: an eyewitness misidentifies their assailant, a detective elicits a false but incriminating s…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/true-memories-and-other-falsehoodsOK, Google. What Can Liberal Arts Do for Tech?
From CMC to Google: Two perspectives. What role does a liberal arts education play, if any, at a tech company like Google? Tina Daniels '93 from Google and Varun Puri '16, from X, Alphabet's moonshot factory, draw on th…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ok-google-what-can-liberal-arts-do-for-tech"You're a WHAT Advisor?" The Trials and Tribulations of One of the U.S. Military's First Gender Advisors
Samantha Turner, the U.S. European Command gender advisor, will explain exactly what she does and why the U.S. Department of Defense is making gender advising a priority for the 21st century “thinking force.” From the g…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/youre-what-advisor%C2%A0-trials-and-tribulations-of-one-of-us-militarys-first-gender-advisorsThe Privileged Poor
Elite colleges are accepting diverse and disadvantaged students more than ever before—but to Anthony Jack, assistant professor education at Harvard University, access does not equal acceptance. Author of "The Privileged…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/privileged-poorIsaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss: The Best of Frenemies
Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss are generally regarded as holding opposite poles of modern political philosophy. Focusing on their critique of social science, the importance of creative statecraft, and the centrality of p…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/isaiah-berlin-and-leo-strauss%C2%A0-best-of-frenemiesFrom Unlearning Liberty to "Coddling:" The Surprising Connection between Campus Free speech & Mental Health
Since 2001, Greg Lukianoff, now president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (“FIRE”) has been defending students and faculty across the political spectrum who have come under fire for their speech. Af…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/from-unlearning-liberty-to-coddling-surprising%C2%A0connection-between%C2%A0campus-free-speechCelebrating Writing and Writers at CMC: An Evening with the 2019 Appel Fellows
The 2019-20 Appel Fellows, recipients of summer funding to engage in independent writing projects, read some of their work—journal entries, zines, short stories, documentaries, podcasts, and travel narratives—and reflec…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/celebrating-writing-and-writers-at-cmc-evening-with-2019-appel-fellows-0An American Summer: Emerging from the Gun Violence of Our Cities
In "An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago," journalist and author Alex Kotlowitz returns a generation later to the scene of this 1991 book, “There Are No Children Here” and to some of Chicago’s most turbulent ne…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/american-summer-emerging-from-gun-violence-of-our-citiesFighting on Two Fronts: The Hello Girls and America's First Women Soldiers
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps recruited 223 women at General Jack Pershing’s request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House for the vote…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fighting-on-two-fronts-hello-girls-and-americas-first-women-soldiersRevisiting the “Dark Ages” of Arabic Literature
The conventional account of Arabic literature in the 16th through 18th centuries is that it was repetitive, unoriginal, lacking vitality. Only in the 19th century, thanks to contacts with the West, did the spiral of con…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/revisiting-%E2%80%9Cdark-ages%E2%80%9D-of-arabic-literature