Prof. Minxin Pei was interviewed by the New York Times about how China plans to avert a financial crisis. Censorship of the press and social media makes it hard for the general public to know about the extent of such problems.

“The government can place them under watch and pressure them through their employers or relatives not to make trouble,” said Pei, who is writing a study of China’s domestic security apparatus.

President Hiram Chodosh was interviewed about results of the 2021 College Free Speech Rankings, which placed Claremont McKenna the nation’s No. 1 college for free expression. “At CMC, we respect and engage in robust discussions around diverse viewpoints, including those with which we most strongly disagree,” Chodosh said. “We seek to examine the underlying basis for those disagreements, including any about the proper protections and limitations of free speech.

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City Journal interviewed Prof. Michael Fortner, about Black attitudes on crime and policing. Fortner is the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. “Today, we see a similar gap between what many white experts and liberal elites want for African-Americans and what many black folks want for themselves,” Fortner said.

Professor Emily Pears appeared on C-SPAN with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood to examine the political debates that surrounded the creation of the U.S. Constitution.

In a Nikkei Asia opinion essay, “China should take steps to reassure its private entrepreneurs” Prof. Minxin Pei wrote that Chinese President Xi Jinping's call for common prosperity is causing “China's entrepreneurs to lose sleep.”

In the run-up to California’s gubernatorial recall election, the Los Angeles Times interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney, who said a recall victory over Larry Elder would be “almost a perfect result for [Gov. Gavin] Newsom in 2022.”

Since the 9/11 attacks, “The sorting of the parties, which was under way in 2001, is now complete,” Prof. Jack Pitney, told The Independent. Pitney added that the party has become far more conservative: “There are no liberals in the Republican Party.”