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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 recounts how he helped precipitate a surge of anti-war activism in 1960s Claremont. His most prominent revolutionary exploit concerned Pomona’s career services office, which activists determined must not be allowed to funnel the bright minds of Pomona College into “objectionable” employment: the spineless Dow Chemical, the imperial U.S. Air For
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


The Court Must End Race-Based Affirmative Action
A man protests affirmative action policies that disadvantage Asian Americans. ( PBS ) In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court...
Nikhil Agarwal
Jun 13, 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


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...
Santiago Barreto
Nov 24, 2021


Class Elections Imbued With Activist Sentiment
As apprehension mounted amidst impending Claremont McKenna College (CMC) class presidential elections, aspiring student leaders scrambled...
Theodore Pasquesi
Sep 30, 2021


The US Should Boycott The 2022 Olympics In China
China is destroying promised liberties in Hong Kong, committing genocide in Xinjiang, and oppressing more people than any other...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 30, 2021


Why Financial Literacy Is Necessary for Socio-Economic Equality
Finance has traditionally been a field reserved for the social elite. Generally, the image of an expensively dressed, middle-aged white...
Shanie Roth
Mar 28, 2021


Joe Biden Didn’t “Give Up” on the $15 Minimum Wage
President Joe Biden recently signed into law the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. The bill sends $1,400...
The Claremont Independent
Mar 24, 2021
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