In delivering the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum, Tamara F. Lawson ’92 urged the audience to recall King’s origin story, which is deeply rooted in his educ…
Popular and political discussions of the changing climate invariably invoke “The Science” as settled. But as theoretical physicist Steven Koonin, University Professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the Ho…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unsettling-climate-scienceAfrican American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask, professor of film at Vassar College and author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, examines the African American weste…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/black-rodeo-history-african-american-westernFinding your purpose is not an easy thing to do and not often found in a single experience or moment. For Tom Linebarger '86, executive chairman of Cummins, Inc.—a global power technology company that pioneers new techn…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/living-life-purposeIn October 2022, the Supreme Court heard challenges to the admissions systems at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Most legal observers expect the Court will make a broad ruling substantially rest…
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https://www.cmc.edu/human-resources/payroll-schedules-resourcesTaner Akçam, the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program at the Promise Institute at UCLA, will discuss the national security implications of Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide on stability and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/turkish-genocide-denial-national-security-conceptFree Market thought is one of the most powerful and controversial ideas. Surprisingly, nobody has ever written a complex history of its origins. That is until Jacob Soll, University Professor and professor of philosophy…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/free-markets-world-fire-thinking-historically-confront-todays-challengesThe publication of the New York Times’ 1619 Project brought to the foreground issues of race, slavery, and the American Founding. Was the true founding of America in 1619, the year the first slaves reportedly arrived in…
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