Welcome to the Dreier Roundtable
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Dreier Roundtable at
Claremont McKenna College
Hon. David Dreier ’75
Former Congressman David Dreier ’75 shares his excitement launching the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater. The Dreier Roundtable is an integral part of fulfilling CMC’s unique role as a leading institution for leadership in business and government.
Meet the Fellows
The Dreier Roundtable is proud to present the DRt fellows here for the upcoming academic year of 2025.

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Dreier Roundtable Civility Award
KNBC-TV political reporter Conan Nolan interviews former Congressman David Dreier ’75 and Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D-CO) at CMC during the 2024 Dreier RoundTable Civility Award ceremony.
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Capital Gazette Shooting Timeline
WJZ-TV in Baltimore offers a timeline of the Capital Gazette shooting: June 28, 2018: A gunman enters the Capital Gazette offices with a “long gun,” shoots through a glass door and fires at multiple employees. Five staffers at the The Capital are killed in the attack:...
The Downside of Emergency Procedures
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: By attempting to short-circuit and compress committee and floor workloads, Congress is losing both its deliberative capacity and its ability to provide a proper check on the executive branch. The longer-term danger is that such truncated...
The Long Shadow of Totalitarianism
Minxin Pei, "China: Totalitarianism’s Long Shadow," Democracy Journal, April 2021. The abstract: Rapid economic growth in China over the last four decades has failed to bring about democratization. Instead of undergoing evolutionary liberalization, the Leninist...