The United States faces growing challenges in maintaining an international order favorable to the United States. General Vincent Brooks, a now retired four-star general, believes that the quality of American foreign pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/challenges-indo-pacific-region-and-beyondDuring the last fraught months of the Civil War, the fate of the United States was far from secure. Tens of thousands of Rebel troops were still in the field, the Lincoln presidency was collapsing, and a peace movement…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/midnight-potomac-last-year-civil-war-lincoln-assassination-and-rebirth-americaLongtime faculty member Salvador Velazco, Associate Professor of Latin America Cinema and Literature, will soon celebrate 30 years with CMC. Both an observer and instigator of change, he recently reminisced about where…
Aislinn Bohren, associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will examine new approaches in economics to the study of discrimination. From outlining how economics has traditionally measured discri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/broadening-economic-perspective-discriminationHow can we learn to read and write when the English language is changing so quickly? How does children's literature help us understand our place in a world of signs and symbols, of sounds and letters? How do we move bet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/childrens-literature-and-challenge-languageFor part one of our series commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, CMC Professor Jon Shields will discuss the relationship between today’s college education and the “pursuit of happiness”…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/college-education-its-complex-role-pursuit-happinessThere is no greater flashpoint in American politics today than the issue of immigration. It touches on our most basic senses of identity, community, and home. Residents of Los Angeles and thousands of other cities acros…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/immigration-latest-battle-civil-rights-americaWhat do recent governmental attacks on colleges and universities say about the state of American politics? Susan McWilliams Barndt, a Podlich Distinguished Fellow in Government at CMC, will examine the Trump administrat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/campus-and-capitol-higher-education-and-federal-powerSeveral times during an interview about his friendship with Leonard Cohen, Robert Faggen stops himself before getting too deep into a memory. Perhaps, after 22 years of shared personal moments, Faggen feels protective o…
When Cori (Williams) Takkinen ’11 sat down for lunch with Christopher Townsend ’82 15 years ago, neither realized they shared a common goal: Takkinen, then a CMC senior, hoped for a job at Townsend Public Affairs (TPA).…
