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Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States
Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning control of 24 new state governments. Liberals and conservatives alike ant…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/red-state-blues-how-conservative-revolution-stalled-in-statesUnflattening Thinking in Comics
Nick Sousanis, Eisner-winning comics author and assistant professor in Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, will discuss his experiences writing and drawing his doctoral dissertation entirely…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unflattening-thinking-in-comicsTrillion Dollar Coach: Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley
Renowned as the ultimate coach, the legendary Bill Campbell mentored some of the best and brightest tech entrepreneurs, including Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In honor o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/trillion-dollar-coach-leadership-playbook-of-silicon-valleyThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How the United States and China Fail the Global Environmental Governance System
In the fifty years of the global environmental governance system, UN member states have negotiated and implemented dozens of multilateral environmental agreements (MEA’s) to address critical planetary challenges, from c…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/good-bad-and-ugly-how-united-states-and-china-fail-global-environmental-governance-systemThe Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights and the Future of the Middle East
Many were filled with hopes during the Arab uprisings, but now look upon the region with despair. Against the current, Micheline Ishay, Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korb…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/levant-express-arab-uprisings-human-rights-and-future-of-middle-eastEducated: A Memoir
Born to Mormon survivalist parents opposed to public education, Tara Westover never attended school. Instead she spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/educated-memoirSaving Magic Johnson: The Long and Complicated Race for Cures
Paul Beninger ’73 P’09, associate professor of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University, shares his long perspective on the early years of the HIV epidemic when he was a medical officer at the vanguard of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/saving-magic-johnson-long-and-complicated-race-for-curesThe State of the World: A Global View
Drawing on her most recent book, The Education of an Idealist, Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, war correspondent, and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice at…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/state-of-world-global-viewTranslating Evidence into Practice: Research and Community Perspectives on Adapting Treatments for Diverse Children and Families
When a family seeks mental health care for a child in their community, it should not be presumed that the treatment offered has been shown in research to be effective. There is further concern that the research on effec…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/translating-evidence-into-practice-research-and-community-perspectives-on-adaptingPolitical Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Pork Barrel Spending and Back Room Deals Can Strengthen Our Democracy
What's causing the dysfunction in our government and the chaos in our politics? Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at Brookings and a contributing writer for the Atlantic, argues that well-intentioned efforts to clean up pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/political-realism-how-hacks-machines-pork-barrel-spending-and-back-room-deals-can