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Taxing California
Mac Taylor has served since 2008 as the nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California Legislature and oversees the preparation of annual fiscal and policy analysis of the state’s budget and programs. With…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/taxing-californiaIncarceration by Any Other Name: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the State
Susan Sered is a professor of sociology at Suffolk University in Boston and a senior researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. Previously she also directed a research program in Reli…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/incarceration-by-any-other-name-unholy-alliance-of-religion-therapeutic-culture-and-stateRich Nation, Poor Nation: A History of Race, Region, and Inequality in Brazil
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and chair of the history department at New York University, where she teaches Brazilian and modern Latin American history. Her research has focused on Amazonian political…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/rich-nation-poor-nation-history-of-race-region-and-inequality-in-brazilTeaching Religious Liberty
James Sonne is a Stanford Law School professor and founding director of the school's Religious Liberty Clinic, the nation's only program where law students learn through full-time representation of real clients in live…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/teaching-religious-libertyEbola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World
David Quammen is a journalist and award-winning author of several books including Spillover (2012), which explores the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases, especially viral diseases. More recently,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ebola-and-beyond-scary-viruses-in-globalized-worldPresaging the Presidential Election: How the 2015 Election Will Shape the 2016 Presidential Race
Off-year elections, those that are held in-between federal elections in odd-numbered years, often give us a good picture of the mood of the electorate before a presidential election. In 2015 three governorships and fou…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/presaging-presidential-election-how-2015-election-will-shape-2016-presidential-raceArt Panel II: Public Art - Public Domain
In this second of the two-part series sponsored by CMC’s Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Public Art Committee, the panel will challenge the idea of the "public" in public art. It will examine the transformat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/art-panel-ii-public-art-public-domainWriting from the Hyphen
Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian writer, editor, and winner of many literary awards. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father, two conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles are a majo…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/writing-from-hyphenArtist as Activist
Yii Kah Hoe is a Malaysian composer and Chinese dizi player. Bold and avant-garde, his music and composition use sounds and rhythms of many traditional instruments from various ethnic cultures. He is also active in musi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/artist-as-activistIsraeli Foreign Policy in a Changing Middle East
Yaki Lopez is the Consul for Political Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles. He joined the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010 and began his work at the Division of Strategic Affairs, where h…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/israeli-foreign-policy-in-changing-middle-east