Throughout November, Scripps College has been hosting and funding more speakers heavily praising Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela. This series is the third semester in a row in which Scripps has hosted talks extolling the virtues of Venezuela’s government; this small women-only liberal arts college in Claremont, California also hosted and funded speakers openly in support of the Maduro regime during the spring 2018 semester and last fall. This semester’s talks took place

Last night I had the distinct privilege of attending a debate hosted by the Pomona Student Union at Pomona College between two extraordinary political and economic thinkers. Dr. Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute specializing in fiscal policy and the economic burden of government spending, and Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of the Current Affairs socialist magazine and prolific author, engaged in discourse over the nature of capitalism and socialism, what t

Scripps College is hosting and funding a three-day speakers’ series with a Venezuelan government official to valorize that country’s totalitarian regime and spread awareness of the “truth in today’s Venezuela,” whitewashing the ruling regime’s extensive human rights abuses, the Independent has learned. The series, which ends on Wednesday, features Antonio Cordero, who serves as a Consul General of Nicholas Maduro’s authoritarian government and has been a business director for