They’ll forever be bonded in 2020—one class exiting CMC, one class entering—and both experiencing the loss of their senior years to COVID-19. With our newest students from the Class of 2024 starting their second week of…
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…
Cognitive 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…
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…
A Zoom memorial service and endowed scholarship fund honor a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague who invested wholeheartedly in students CMC Trustee Tao Li ’02 will always remember Carol Carney as his “American Mom.”…
Ibram X. Kendi would like to banish the term “not racist” from our vocabulary. The historian, scholar, and writer said it is important for people challenging inequities to actively become antiracist and not merely “not…
Inspired by conversations she was having in May about police brutality and killings of Black Americans, Sobechukwu (Sobé) Uwajeh ’22 knew she had to take action. On the lookout for literature to educate others about rac…
There are few things more quintessentially American—or fascinating to educated Americans—than the autodidact. The excitement around Monday’s kickoff event in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum proved as much. The headliner…
Paul Beninger ’73 P’09 recalls the haunting chant of gay rights activists outside Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., during the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis. “Give us the drugs,”…
Samantha Power’s political idealism—a granite faith in democracy and America’s moral duty to protect it around the world—began taking shape in 1989 on the day tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square. Power, then a Yale stude…
