Prof. Ken Miller views his new book, Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America, as a biography of two rivals, states which are similar in size and origin, yet widely divergent when it c…
The tech companies that were once considered among the best corporate citizens in the world, praised for expanding access to information, lowering barriers to education, and generally using innovation to create a better…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/view-from-inside-techlashCognitive psychologist Sharda Umanath and her CMC student researchers are cartographers in the largely uncharted ‘zone of proximal retrieval” of our knowledge bases. “Wait, wait… I know that… It’s on the tip of my tongu…
How are we adapting to life during the pandemic? While many of us are experiencing brain fog, with a blurred sense of the future, David Eagleman sees a silver lining, an opportunity for our minds during lockdown. “2020…
Nixon v. Trump Jack Pitney’s GOP affiliation survived Watergate, but not Donald Trump. He explains the difference. “I teach a course on Nixon. I tell my students: ‘Everything bad you can say about Nixon is true. And eve…
In their new book, Trump’s Democrats, Jon Shields and co-author Stephanie Muravchik explore what compelled voters in consistently blue states to cast ballots for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016. “…
The unraveling of the commercial relationship between the U.S. and China was once thought unthinkable, but is now unfolding with relentless speed. Lingling Wei, senior China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/romance-gone-bad-chinese-american-economic-relationshipWhen the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum’s speaker series kicks off its fall 2020 season next week, it will do so with a focus on pressing national issues—the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight for racial justice, the national el…
The U.S. and China have entered a period of intense mutual antagonism across the full spectrum of their relationship. Whether their rivalry will escalate in the short term critically depends on the outcomes of the U.S.…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/us-china-relations-after-november-3Pandemic. Economic collapse. Virtual conventions. Protests. Riots. And maybe even a meteoroid. Yet the polls in the presidential election are close and the gap is narrowing. As we conclude this most surreal election cyc…
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