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...
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José Najas
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...
Charlie Hatcher
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...
Pieter van Wingerden
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,...
Margot Rosenblatt
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...
Henry Schulz
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....
Santiago Barreto
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...
Leonora Willett
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...
Wolfgang Hutton
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...
Santiago Barreto
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...
Theodore Pasquesi
Class Elections Imbued With Activist Sentiment
As apprehension mounted amidst impending Claremont McKenna College (CMC) class presidential elections, aspiring student leaders scrambled...
Trevor Klein
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...
Shanie Roth
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...
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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...
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California Needs to Save Itself Before It’s Too Late
Since achieving statehood in 1850, California has retained its appeal to people across the country. As the most populous U.S. state,...
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Pomona Needs to Bring International Students Back to Campus
With the beginning of the second half of the academic year, the Pomona College community has endured another semester of online...
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The Future of the GOP: How They Lost in 2020 and How They Can Win in the Future
Disclaimer: This article is not an endorsement of any political party or candidate. This article simply makes observations based on...
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Everyone Can Wear Hoops: How Fear of Cultural Appropriation Hurts the 5Cs
“White Girl, take off your hoops!!!” students wrote on the free speech wall at Pitzer College in 2017. According to one of the students...
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Buybacks Aren’t Evil
Lately, it has become very fashionable to be against stock buybacks. Critics argue that corporations repurchasing shares are killing the...
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The Far Left Undermined Biden Before He Was Even Elected, And They Aren’t Stopping There
After nearly losing her seat during this year’s election, Representative Abigail Spanberger said that Democrats should never utter the...
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Time Zones And Zoom Fatigue: Why The Claremont Colleges Should Give Students Their Spring Break Back
The recent announcement of the Spring 2021 Academic Calendar has left many students feeling unheard, in despair, and worried for the...
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The I-Place Shutdown: Many Hands Make Poor Decisions
Most of us have heard the adage, “your college years are the best years of your life.” For some, this statement is less true, especially...
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Academic Diversity In The Classrooms Is More Important Than Ever
With the upcoming election and the battle over Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s replacement growing more contentious by the day, we are in an era of...
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The Democrats’ Golden Retriever Complex
Trump’s campaign has finally settled on a negative message. In Joe Biden’s America, cities will burn as radical leftists control his...
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A Call For 5Cers Not To Give Up Hope
Far from the familiar flurry that comes upon us as we prepare for move-in, this August, our community is spread all over the world taking...
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Democrats Need To Reclaim Patriotism
This summer, my stepdad saw an American flag dancing in the wind and assumed its owner was conservative. It is a common reaction by...
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New DOE Title IX Regulations Not The Correct Fix
Earlier this week, the Claremont Consortium announced the creation of an interim sexual assault policy in accordance with the regulations...
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Why You Should Support #Defundthepolice Even If You Don’t Think Our System Is Racist
By Margot Rosenblatt I’ve never seen “The Purge,” but it seems like an unpleasant movie. Although it’s fiction, I believe it holds some...
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Pomona and Scripps Must, and Have the Means to, Support International Students
Earlier today, Pomona and Scripps Colleges became the Claremont Colleges’ first to announce conducting classes entirely remotely for the...
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An Open Letter To The Claremont McKenna And Harvey Mudd Presidents
Dear Presidents Klawe and Chodosh, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Claremont McKenna College (CMC) share much in common. Most obviously,...
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Charity And Bullying Can’t Go Hand In Hand
As reported by the Independent earlier today, the producers of “Love is Blind: Claremont,” an online dating show run and participated in...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A Case Against Universal Pass At Scripps
The following opinion was sent to the Editors of the Claremont Independent by a Scripps College alumna who wishes to remain anonymous....
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Opt-In Letter Grade Policy Exposes Huge Inequalities
I still remember the morning I found out I’d been accepted into Pomona College. The virtual confetti raining down my laptop screen will...
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Harassment Cannot be a Substitute for Discourse
The last few days have proven divisive in the Pomona College community. In fact, as a senior, I can’t remember a time where students were...
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Adopting Universal Pass/Fail Would be a Mistake
According to an email sent out to the student body around noon on April 13, the Pomona College Faculty Executive Committee is bringing...
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Stay the Course and Buy American
The number of Americans infected by the coronavirus has surged dramatically since the first case in the U.S. was confirmed earlier this...
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All Segregation Is Wrong, Period.
The Claremont Colleges are a place where events you couldn’t make up take place. For example, the recent “BlaQ Mixer” event at Pomona...
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What’s America’s Mission?
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conclusion of the Cold War, the United States has found itself trapped in a crisis of...
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Trump is Right About Tariffs Against China…But for the Wrong Reasons
Earlier last month, President Trump signed the recently negotiated phase-one trade deal with China. During a ceremony at the White House,...
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In Defense of Embracing—Not Separating—Differences
While rhetoric on college campuses often falls along lines of radical inclusivity, more and more events at the Claremont Colleges appear...
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How Problematic Thoughts Can Make You a Better Person
By Margot Rosenblatt A few weeks ago, on the raised section of the Hoch-Shanahan dining hall, a very wise Scripps upper-classman uttered...
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The ‘Woke’ Jew’s Chutzpah
Opinions expressed in this article may not necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board. In a recent opinion article titled My Jewish...
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The Antigua Incident: How Scripps Admin Trains First Years To Suppress Ideas From Day One
By Margot Rosenblatt I never thought that the Caribbean island of Antigua, of all places and things, would embody so well my apprehension...
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Our Beloved Humanities
“Our ‘benefactors’ are, more than our enemies, people who make our worth and will smaller. When people try to benefit someone in...
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The Pitzer/Haifa Resolution: A Suspension of Opportunity
By Shir Bar Nes Higher education offers higher opportunities than just academic studies. It offers the chance to grow past personal,...
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A Foreigner in Claremont
As an international student, my time is divided between two very contrasting settings. One is Claremont—home of the Claremont Colleges—an...
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Why America is Exceptional
On this day, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, invariably there arises a debate over the concept of American exceptionalism....
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A Midwest Liberal Encounters West Coast Liberalism
Over the summer, I read Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in their Own Land as part of Pomona College’s required reading for incoming...
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Women Are Not Weak—We Don’t Need Special Treatment
I’m starting to suspect that the progressives might be right that misogyny and sexism are still rampant problems in American society. I’m...
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Postmodernism Poisons The Liberal Arts
I am a natural proponent of liberal arts colleges. I was always that kid who got her books confiscated for reading under her desk or...
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