Eleanor Clift quoted Prof. Jack Pitney in a The Daily Beast op-ed about how the Democrats are finally learning to fight the GOP’s fire with fire: “They’re clearly latching on to libertarian rhetoric trying to limit the power of the government. That may win them more support than some invocation of ‘woke’ values.”
Prof. Jack Pitney was quoted in a Washington Examiner story about the Democrats’ mask mandate dilemma. Even if the Justice Department wins its appeal of a federal court’s decision to strike down the CDC’s public transportation mask mandate, the fact that the TSA stopped enforcing it will make it difficult to reverse. “Reimposing a mandate after it has been lifted is likely to be unpopular,” he said. “People dislike uncertainty and inconsistency.”
Prof. Lily Geismer was interviewed by The Nation about her new book, Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. In regard to the Clinton administration’s small, market-based reforms as solutions to poverty and inequality, Geismer said: “In the end, these micro-solutions both reinforce the power of the market—because they’re based on the techniques of consulting and especially of the emerging high-tech sector—and at the same time they don’t require much expenditure of political or economic capital.
Claremont McKenna’s once-a-year surf-ski day was a compelling bonus to Robin Peterson’s list of pros for the College.
“CMC offered everything I could have hoped for,” said Peterson’22. “On top of the beautiful weather, the small school made it possible for me to engage in everything from great academics, to running track, to having Army ROTC.”
When Rachana Muvvala ’24 played the stock market game in a high school economics class, she was hooked. “It showed me how fun and interesting the stock market can be,” she says. “Since we were playing at the peak of COVID-19’s market disruption, every morning, I would wake up and be greeted by a loss—yet the thrill from possibly gaining that money back excited me.”
One characteristic that Courtney Hooks ’23 immediately noticed about Claremont McKenna College on her first visit was the welcoming atmosphere. “I didn't know much about the culture of the school until I arrived for the first time fir the accepted students day in April of 2019,” she said. “All of the current students were happy to meet me and went out of their way to answer my questions. It was then that I really saw myself attending CMC.”
Ask Truman Knowles ’23 about his favorite professors at Claremont McKenna College, and he will respond with an entire list.
Economics major Natalie Ionescu ’24 chose CMC for its small, tight-knit community and alumni network. And though her first year was online, she was able to start building relationships, reaching out to alumni, and working toward her career goals.
“Joining the Student Investment Fund my freshman fall was truly life changing,” she says, “not only because I met some of my closest friends, but because it has also helped me decide which path I plan to take in my career when I graduate: investment banking.”
Sometimes when Carson Stubstad ’22 walks around campus at a quiet moment, he’s transported back to when he visited Claremont McKenna College for the first time and realized it was the college for him. “It’s almost surreal when I remember that day and now I am living it, and doing so much more than I ever could have imagined,” Stubstad said.
