by jpitney | Aug 30, 2022 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists
FORTHCOMING ATHENAEUM EVENT! REGISTRATION WILL OPEN SOON AT https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum Tue, September 13, 2022 Dinner Program Covering January 6: Journalists’ Reflection Sahil Kapur ’09, Michael Shear ’90, and Elise Viebeck ’09 On January 6th,...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress
AP congressional correspondent Alan Fram is retiring. From his closing thoughts: Anti-government rhetoric by politicians is not new. But these latest assaults on faith in government and the election system underpinning it — by potent influencers like a former...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2022 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Claremont McKenna College, Patriotism, Uncategorized
The American Political Science Association has just announced that Emily Pears of Claremont McKenna College has won the award for best book in American political thought. Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History by Emily Pears...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2022 | Higher Education, Polarization
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Far too often, the headlines are missing the fact that so much closed-mindedness and balkanization in terms of openness toward engaging with political difference is far more pronounced on the left. And this is a phenomenon that I have observed as...
