Glenn Greenwald Visits CMC

Glenn Greenwald, the popular civil liberties-oriented political commentator at Salon, gave a talk at CMC on November 4th. Greenwald’s new book is With Liberty and Justice for All. The topic of the book and of Greenwald’s talk at the Athenaeum is the two-tiered justice system in the United States whereby powerful “elites” like bankers and politicians are immune from prosecution for torture, wiretapping and foreclosure fraud, while millions of ordinary Americans — the highest rate of per capita imprisonment anywhere in the world — face long jail terms for minor offenses.

Greenwald’s talk was cosponsored by the ACLU of the Claremont Colleges.

ACLU-CC Director Miles Lifson CMC '13, second from left, and Deputy Director Jeremy B. Merrill CMC '12, first from right, eat lunch with Glenn Greenwald prior to his talk at CMC's Athenaeum. (Courtesy MadhouseMuse)