Opinion

Baxter Brew

Nov 16

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...

Student Protesters Should Embrace Suspensions

Violet Ramanathan

Nov 14

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...

The Athenaeum is a Serious Project – We Should Dress Like It

Greta Long

Nov 10

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...

Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Through the Lens of the Soviet Experience

Lenny Fukshansky

Nov 6

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...

A Call for Persuasive Means In College Protests

Greta Long

Oct 15

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 ,...

Will Chance

Sep 23

President Biden’s Student Loan Debacle

The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student loans . Though Washington provides only a portion of the...

Charlie Hatcher

Sep 2

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...

EDITORIAL: The Claremont Colleges Should Require Test Scores for Admission

Editorial Board

Apr 11

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...

The EU Should Not Rush Membership for Ukraine

Polonius (pseudonym)

Feb 20

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...

No, Israel Is Not to Blame for Terrorist Attacks

Pierre Aronnax (pseudonym)

Nov 2, 2023

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...

False History Drove Call for Removal of American Flag at Pitzer

José Najas

Apr 24, 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...

Rebuttal: CMC Should Not Renounce the Claremont Institute

Charlie Hatcher

Mar 21, 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...

Pieter van Wingerden

Mar 6, 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,...

Margot Rosenblatt

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...

American Semiconductors Will Give the US an Edge Over China in the Technological Cold War

Henry Schulz

Apr 19, 2022

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....

Santiago Barreto

Apr 16, 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...

The Chain of Decision Making: Where Are COVID-19 Rules Coming From?

Leonora Willett

Dec 12, 2021

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...

Ayanna Pressley And The (Un)Logic of Critical Theory

Wolfgang Hutton

Nov 25, 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...

The Race Against “Racism” In Universities Has Gone Too Far

Santiago Barreto

Nov 24, 2021

The Race Against “Racism” In Universities Has Gone Too Far

UCLA suspended Professor Gordon Klein last spring for refusing to give Black students free passes on the final exam to account for the...

Class Elections Imbued With Activist Sentiment

Theodore Pasquesi

Sep 30, 2021

Class Elections Imbued With Activist Sentiment

As apprehension mounted amidst impending Claremont McKenna College (CMC) class presidential elections, aspiring student leaders scrambled...