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Please join Virtual Athenaeum for a preview of Election Night 2020. CMC’s Zachary Courser, Jack Pitney, and Andrew Sinclair, all professors in the government department, will be joined by Sara Sadhwani, professor of pol…

Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Gr…

Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society, believes that facts alone are no match for the seductive moral appeal of socialism, which will fail as many times as it is pursued. She will make the case that the argument a…

Diligent Corporation has quietly become one of the largest SaaS companies on the planet, providing governance software to nearly 20,000 organizations globally. Following the events of 2020, Diligent has called on its ne…

Every discussion or debate around COVID-19 has become protracted, political, and bitter, and what to do about schools is no exception. Indeed schools present a tradeoff. When they're open, society benefits from the esse…

First alerted to the power of language through his grandparents, who were church people, and for whom the "sound of the Old Testament informed the cadences of their speech,” award winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry…

Poet and writer Gabrielle Calvocoressi will examine the ways poetry enacts and sets a path forward for new ways of thinking about our various economies (both real and imagined). Using the work of Destiny Hemphill, Fred …

Science offers insights into how people can better manage their psychology in the pursuit of happiness. Much has been learned about what is required to be happy in the moment and how this psychological state can be sust…

Conflicts among our goals are a major impediment to living a good life. Conflicts frustrate competing goals and they also cause us to wonder if we’re on the wrong path. Valerie Tiberius, the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Lib…

In the past few decades, economists have been increasingly interested in studying happiness or subjective well-being measures, and policy makers have also started to use these measures to design and evaluate policies. F…