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Supreme Court Matters: A Discussion of this Term's Landmark Cases
In a conversational format, Kimberly West-Faulcon and Eugene Volokh, professors of law at Loyola School of Law and UCLA School of Law respectively, will discuss some of the landmark cases in the Supreme Court docket thi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/supreme-court-matters-discussion-of-this-terms-landmark-casesReading 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-of-poetry-with-jane-hirshfieldWhy Psychiatry Gave up on Freud and Embraced the Brain: What Really Happened and What Really Happened Next
In the 1980s, American psychiatry underwent a rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives and instead embraced an approach focused on drugs, biology, and the brain. The stand…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/why-psychiatry-gave-up-on-freud-and-embraced-brain-what-really-happened-and-what-reallyRevisiting the “Dark Ages” of Arabic Literature
The conventional account of Arabic literature in the 16th through 18th centuries is that it was repetitive, unoriginal, lacking vitality. Only in the 19th century, thanks to contacts with the West, did the spiral of con…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/revisiting-%E2%80%9Cdark-ages%E2%80%9D-of-arabic-literatureFighting on Two Fronts: The Hello Girls and America's First Women Soldiers
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps recruited 223 women at General Jack Pershing’s request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House for the vote…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fighting-on-two-fronts-hello-girls-and-americas-first-women-soldiersAn American Summer: Emerging from the Gun Violence of Our Cities
In "An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago," journalist and author Alex Kotlowitz returns a generation later to the scene of this 1991 book, “There Are No Children Here” and to some of Chicago’s most turbulent ne…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/american-summer-emerging-from-gun-violence-of-our-citiesCelebrating Writing and Writers at CMC: An Evening with the 2019 Appel Fellows
The 2019-20 Appel Fellows, recipients of summer funding to engage in independent writing projects, read some of their work—journal entries, zines, short stories, documentaries, podcasts, and travel narratives—and reflec…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/celebrating-writing-and-writers-at-cmc-evening-with-2019-appel-fellows-0From Unlearning Liberty to "Coddling:" The Surprising Connection between Campus Free speech & Mental Health
Since 2001, Greg Lukianoff, now president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (“FIRE”) has been defending students and faculty across the political spectrum who have come under fire for their speech. Af…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/from-unlearning-liberty-to-coddling-surprising%C2%A0connection-between%C2%A0campus-free-speechIsaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss: The Best of Frenemies
Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss are generally regarded as holding opposite poles of modern political philosophy. Focusing on their critique of social science, the importance of creative statecraft, and the centrality of p…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/isaiah-berlin-and-leo-strauss%C2%A0-best-of-frenemiesThe Privileged Poor
Elite colleges are accepting diverse and disadvantaged students more than ever before—but to Anthony Jack, assistant professor education at Harvard University, access does not equal acceptance. Author of "The Privileged…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/privileged-poor