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Devolving power for its own sake will only lead to inefficency Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne “A pair of eyelashes and a black T-shirt.” Thus was the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham, referred to indignantly by MP Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party. While I usually dislike both conservatives and objectification, Badenoch’s poetic blazon of Burnham is apt. His policies may appear attractive, but are inherently disconnected from each o

"Devolution" could help mitigate federal-state disputes in the United States Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne In the United States, we are used to the constant, though inconsistent, power struggle between the federal and state governments. Every time the party in the White House changes, the governor’s mansions in twenty states reverse their positions on every possible procedural legal matter, and twenty Attorneys General suddenly decide the federal government has too m

The Forum sits down with Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke Image credit: Musa al-Gharbi Shiv Parihar: Hello and welcome to The Forum, sponsored by the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World. Today, we're honored to be joined by Musa al-Gharbi, professor in the Department of Communications at Stony Brook University and author of the best-selling book We Have Never Been Woke. You have a PhD in sociology, although you're not in

5C activists should not negotiate with terrorists. Image credit: Chloe Ellingson for The New York Times, Abdou's Substack End Times, Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Today, on the the third anniversary of the October 7th massacre, the Claremont Colleges People’s Fund — an unregistered mutual aid group — invited Dr. Mohamed Abdou, a self-described “Muslim anarchist” fired from his position at Columbia University after expressing that he was “with the muqawamah [the resistance] be it H

Reconstructing a Jewish identity three years on. Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne I had always figured that my proper Jewish education had ended when I was 13. After hours of poring over my parsha, practicing cantillation marks until my throat was dry, I assumed that my Jewish identity reached its culmination on the day of my bat mitzvah. Seeing as Judaism has never particularly been interested in leaving questions settled, I should’ve known better. It was fall of my f

Housing and transit policy afficianodo Nicholas Steinman responds to a "defense of the suburbs." This article originally appeared in The Student Life (TSL) on Oct. 2. TSL production editor Nicholas Steinman writes in response to Arjun Vohra's article, "In Defense of the Suburbs," first published on Sept. 24 in the Claremont Independent. Image credit: Melinda Qerushi / The Student Life Last week, I read an op-ed in the Claremont Independent (CI) titled “In Defense of the Subu

The Forum sits down with Washington Post columnist and CMC alumnus Henry Olsen. Image credit: Discovery Institute Shiv Parihar: Hello, I'm Shiv Parihar. Sarah McPeek: I'm Sarah McPeek. Shiv Parihar: And you're here with The Forum, sponsored by the Salvatori Center. We're honored today to be joined by Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a columnist for The Washington Post. Henry Olsen: Thank you all for having me here, particularly with Mr.

By taking low-wage, high-impact jobs, wealthy students at top colleges can help the neediest while making room for others to climb the ladder. Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Claremont McKenna College is known for many things: sunny SoCal weather, a tight-knit community, the Athenaeum, and a top free speech ranking. But what perhaps best distinguishes CMC, as with most elite US colleges, is its ability to take rich kids and make them even richer. As my reader is likely

You've heard a lot about CMC's 50 years of coeducation. Where did it all begin? Image credit: Claremont McKenna College Archives / Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Half a century ago, in 1976, just under 60 women arrived on campus as the first class of female students admitted to Claremont Men’s College. If the name didn’t make it obvious, one of CMC’s earliest defining features was its prominent male student culture. Of the 86 students and seven faculty members who constituted its

President William Dudley discusses his use of Washington & Lee’s institutional voice, artificial intelligence in classrooms, and Claremont McKenna's tuition prices. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Image credit: Washington & Lee / Jasper Langley-Hawthorne President William C. Dudley is Claremont McKenna College’s sixth president, assuming the position after serving as president of Washington & Lee University for nearly a decade. He was preceded by Hiram