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Can (Should) Algorithms Be Used to Reduce Incarceration in the United States?
Statistically derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been labeled as racist, dehumanizing, and antithetical to the foundatio…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/can-should-algorithms-be-used-reduce-incarceration-united-statesAyn Rand, Milton Friedman, and the Ethics of Capitalism
Historian and biographer Jennifer Burns, associate professor of history at Stanford University and research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, will draw on original research to explore the i…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ayn-rand-milton-friedman-and-ethics-capitalismMachiavelli for Women: Power in the Workplace
In her new book, "Machiavelli For Women," NPR host of The Indicator from Planet Money Stacey Vanek Smith looks at how women can apply the principles of the 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their 21st-cen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/machiavelli-women-power-workplaceThe Splendid and the Vile
In The Splendid and the Vile, renowned author Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Winston Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinksmanship but also an int…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/splendid-and-vileThe Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? According to award-winning University of Chicago behavioral economist John List, the answer comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale? Using a mix o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/voltage-effect-how-make-good-ideas-great-and-great-ideas-scaleOn Juneteenth
Weaving together American history, family chronicle, and personal memoir in her most recent book On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, provides a historian’s vi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/juneteenthThe Young and The Restless: A Deep Dive into Investigating the World’s Largest Group of People, India's Millennials
India is one of the youngest countries in the world and its generation of millennials make up for over 400 million people. This is the largest generation of people in the world. So, asks Vivan Marwaha '17, the author of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/young-and-restless-deep-dive-investigating-worlds-largest-group-people-indias-millennialsReformed Worship and Huguenot Identity
French Reformed Protestants, commonly known as Huguenots, were fundamentally a religious minority. Accordingly, they sought to distinguish themselves from Catholics. Two prominent liturgical events – the Lord’s Supper a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reformed-worship-and-huguenot-identityFinancing Global Decarbonization
Erik Anderson ’80 P'23 is founder and CEO of WestRiver Group, a global innovation investment platform, and Chief Executive Officer of the DCRB+ Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), which seek to identify impac…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/financing-global-decarbonizationFire Is Not a Country: A Poetry Reading
In her third collection, award-winning Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the reign of global capitalism and resurg…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fire-not-country-poetry-reading