Claremont McKenna's Center for Writing and Public Discourse. Alexandra Wofford contributed reporting. This spring, we were hired by...

Sir Salman Rushdie at the 2014 PEN America/Free Expression Literature Conference (credit: Ed Lederman/PEN American Center ) On April 25,...

Image via Claremont McKenna College . Much ink has been spilled over the decision of Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr to...

Pitzer Free Wall on March 6. The Free Wall’s History and Recent Controversy Pitzer College’s Free Wall  has recently become the canvas...

CMC Professor Jon Shields. On February 22, the Independent  and the Salvatori Center co-hosted CMC professor Jon Shields for a lunch talk...

Image Credit: Baxter Brew On Friday, January 24, CMC faculty voted  to recommend that the Board of Trustees reinstate the school’s...

Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...

Posters set up outside Carnegie Hall. On October 23, a statement from Pomona College President Gabi Starr announced that ten students had...

Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...

Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...

Protesters blocking the entrance to Carnegie Hall. I attended October 7th’s pro-Palestine protests  as a reporter for the Independent ,...

Image via Flickr. Copyright The Review University of Delaware. The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student...

Image via Flickr. Copyright of Carpathiar . In a 2016 essay titled How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College ,  alumnus Harry Stein...

Photograph from 2y.kang. For years, standardized test scores were the primary metric used by admissions officers. Last year, more than 80...

Colorful flags waved outside the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2022. Inside, 27 EU leaders, protected by a...

Hamas parades through Gaza. (Ashraf Amra) These past few weeks, pro-Palestinian groups on college campuses across the country have lauded...

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...

Image via Claremont Institute The Claremont Institute, a modest building in an Upland office park, is home to a cluster of influential...

Image via Washington Post Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In Taiwan,...

Leftists don’t hate America. They hate America’s problems. They may conflate these problems with the country, but the two are not the...