Patrick Atwater
Patrick Atwater is a senior at Claremont McKenna College, pursuing a dual degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). When not playing football or slaving away at the Rose, he spends his time theorizing about the California Dream, which Abhi is foolish enough to pay him for. He enjoys theoretical politics, skiing, Russian literature, genuine people, not swimming back, happiness, the outdoors, Michael Bay movies, trying new things, island paradises, the works of Amartya Sen, traveling, and making gross overgeneralizations.
Politics and the West Wing
I feel that every CMCer should like The West Wing. It’s got politics, awkward romances, and pithy dialogue. What’s not to love? Yet the show’s wittiness...
Randomizing Democracy in the Golden State
The Constitutional Convention movement seems sadly to be coalescing around selecting delegates by lot from the jury pool.(1) This idea seems stupid on its face....
California’s Political Horizon
Leaving Sacramento for the first time last weekend, my initial suspicion was confirmed: this is just a small blip in the vast expanse of the Central Valley. As...
California’s Sisyphean Storm
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the UC system is one of California State Government’s few remaining bright spots. California’s Universities...
The Guinness Book of Academic Records
For those of you that missed it, graduation was a great success despite the lack of champagne. President Gann’s speech was awful (I’m beginning to wonder if...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Rationality
So I heard the other day that “Rational thought is the best/only way to find truth.” For most college students, I’ll wager that statement is so uncontroversial...
Pig Pandemic!!!
It’s now officially a crisis: the Economist is running their cover story on the swine flu. And listening to Joe Biden, it appears that we should begin preparing...
This Week in the CMC Sandbox
Claremont McKenna is widely lauded as a hotbed for political discourse, and this week was no different. The running feud between two dominant groups– the self...
The Traumatic Kernel of the Pomona/CMC Rivalry
So the other day I saw this flyer in the dining hall. It was for a talk at Pomona, and as is so often the case, the thing had already expired… lucky for me, however,...
The Jester and the Clown
For those of you who have been living under a rock these past few weeks, Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart had a bit of a tiff. A few weeks ago Jon Stewart decided to run...
