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The New Founders America Needs
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer and writer, and publisher of Common Sense with Bari Weiss, will explore the new founders America needs today, addressing the broken moment we are in as a culture and a country, and what is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/new-founders-america-needsCreating A Space for Me & You
A Peabody Award winner for her Netflix series City of Ghosts and Emmy winning director for her work on Adventure Time, Elizabeth Ito will talk about the evolution of her creative process, share advice that has been inst…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/creating-space-me-youResolution: This House Should Abolish the Electoral College
In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election despite losing the popular vote by almost 2.9 million votes. The result spurred a national conversation about the Electoral Colle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/resolution-house-should-abolish-electoral-collegeChina’s Unusual Rise: How China Builds and Exercises Military Power, 1995-2020
How do rising countries like China build influence in a world dominated by more established powers? Whereas most experts assume that China has sought to emulate the U.S., Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow at the Freem…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/chinas-unusual-rise-how-china-builds-and-exercises-military-power-1995-2020Reading and Reflection: An Evening of Poetry with Jane Hirshfield
Described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and by The New York Times as “passionate and radiant,” award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield work ranges from the political, ecological, and scientif…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reading-and-reflection-evening-poetry-jane-hirshfieldHuman Rights and the Origins of the Refugee Crisis in the Middle East
Michelle Tusan, professor of history at UNLV, explores the origins of the response to stateless refugees by international institutions and humanitarian organizations. It has its roots in one of the forgotten stories of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/human-rights-and-origins-refugee-crisis-middle-eastSmackdown: Memory v History
Today's young readers are tomorrow's problem-solvers, whose task, asserts Linda Sue Park, Newberry Medal award winning author of children’s books, is nothing less than saving the planet and human decency. She will talk…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/smackdown-memory-v-historyWriting From the Heart: The Joys and Terrors of Being Vulnerable in Journalism
Award-winning essayist and syndicated columnist Donna Britt had written extensively in The Washington Post about being black, female, and spiritual in a society that often devalues all three. How does one successfully n…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/writing-heart-joys-and-terrors-being-vulnerable-journalismCalifornia’s Choices: 2022 Ballot Measures
Exercising the power to determine important policy issues by direct popular vote, this fall Californians will vote on seven ballot measures covering a broad range of subjects including a measure to change the California…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/californias-choices-2022-ballot-measuresAn Evening of Poetry and Prose
In describing Mary Ruefle’s poems, the poet Tony Hoagland said, “Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result (for those with ears to hear) is a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-poetry-and-prose