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Professor Jon Shields on Understanding the Conservative Tradition
CMC Professor Jon Shields. On February 22, the Independent and the Salvatori Center co-hosted CMC professor Jon Shields for a lunch talk...
Naya Dermenjian
Feb 28

Bring Back Standardized Tests
Image Credit: Baxter Brew On Friday, January 24, CMC faculty voted to recommend that the Board of Trustees reinstate the school’s...
Baxter Brew and Violet Ramanathan
Feb 20

Mental Illness is Losing its Meaning
Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...
Baxter Brew
Nov 16, 2024


Student Protesters Should Embrace Suspensions
Posters set up outside Carnegie Hall. On October 23, a statement from Pomona College President Gabi Starr announced that ten students had...
Violet Ramanathan
Nov 14, 2024


The Athenaeum is a Serious Project – We Should Dress Like It
Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...
Greta Long
Nov 10, 2024


Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Through the Lens of the Soviet Experience
Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...
Lenny Fukshansky
Nov 6, 2024

A Call for Persuasive Means In College Protests
Protesters blocking the entrance to Carnegie Hall. I attended October 7th’s pro-Palestine protests as a reporter for the Independent ,...
Greta Long
Oct 15, 2024


President Biden’s Student Loan Debacle
Image via Flickr. Copyright The Review University of Delaware. The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student...
Will Chance
Sep 23, 2024


Pomona Is Right to Press Charges
Image via Flickr. Copyright of Carpathiar . In a 2016 essay titled How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College , alumnus Harry Stein...
Charlie Hatcher
Sep 2, 2024


EDITORIAL: The Claremont Colleges Should Require Test Scores for Admission
Photograph from 2y.kang. For years, standardized test scores were the primary metric used by admissions officers. Last year, more than 80...
Editorial Board
Apr 11, 2024


The EU Should Not Rush Membership for Ukraine
Colorful flags waved outside the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2022. Inside, 27 EU leaders, protected by a...
Polonius (pseudonym)
Feb 20, 2024


No, Israel Is Not to Blame for Terrorist Attacks
Hamas parades through Gaza. (Ashraf Amra) These past few weeks, pro-Palestinian groups on college campuses across the country have lauded...
Pierre Aronnax (pseudonym)
Nov 2, 2023


False History Drove Call for Removal of American Flag at Pitzer
A sculpture of Columbus beheaded in Boston's North End. (NBC Boston) The call for the removal of an American flag from the Pitzer College...
José Najas
Apr 24, 2023


Rebuttal: CMC Should Not Renounce the Claremont Institute
Image via Claremont Institute The Claremont Institute, a modest building in an Upland office park, is home to a cluster of influential...
Charlie Hatcher
Mar 21, 2023


When Dictators Speak, We Should Listen
Image via Washington Post Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In Taiwan,...
Pieter van Wingerden
Mar 6, 2023

Leftists Don't Really Hate America
Leftists don’t hate America. They hate America’s problems. They may conflate these problems with the country, but the two are not the...
Margot Rosenblatt
Mar 6, 2023


American Semiconductors Will Give the US an Edge Over China in the Technological Cold War
The United States is engaged in a technological cold war with China because of our dependence on East Asian semiconductors....
Henry Schulz
Apr 19, 2022

Twitter Bans Threaten Free Speech
Twitter suspended the satire site The Babylon Bee after it gave Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, the title...
Santiago Barreto
Apr 16, 2022


The Chain of Decision Making: Where Are COVID-19 Rules Coming From?
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, LA County’s precautions have been among the strictest in the country. For example, the county recently...
Leonora Willett
Dec 12, 2021


Ayanna Pressley And The (Un)Logic of Critical Theory
Opinion by Wolfgang Hutton “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need any more black faces...
Wolfgang Hutton
Nov 25, 2021
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