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…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/weirdest-election-everThe 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified 100 years ago in 1920. The text of the amendment prohibited denying the right to vote “on account of sex.” With the amendment, the voting population of the United Stat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/100th-anniversary-of-19th-amendment-and-future-of-gender-equalityThe idea that we should interpret the Constitution based on the original understanding of those who ratified it was long championed by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet originalism has moved far beyond Justice Scalia…
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https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/athenaeum-faqsHenri Cole, award winning poet and professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College, reads from his newest collection of poems, BLIZZARD.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-of-poetry-with-henri-coleMisinformation is rampant. Cailin O’Connor, associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine, will address how the social aspects of human learning contribute to what some a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/misinformation-ageThe majority of Sonja Lyubomirsky's research career has been devoted to studying human happiness. During both normal times and challenging circumstances like today, happiness not only feels good; it is good. Fortunately…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-of-happiness-during-covid-19-and-beyond-boosting-well-being-through-kindness-and