If artificial intelligence replaces every job, humans will face a mass disillusionment. It won’t be the humanist disillusionment we expect — the mythologized anticlimax of humankind, a world where machines outperform us at jobs we thought were uniquely ours. Rather, we will realize that those jobs never needed to exist,
Opinions
OPINION: You should get to know the local candidates on your ballot
The gubernatorial debate hosted at Pomona College earlier this spring made it impossible to ignore the contest to become the governor of California. However, candidates for many other positions, including Claremont’s city council and the State Board of Equalization, deserve equal attention.
OPINION: Pomona needs more rigor. The liberal arts are at stake.
Grade inflation discourse often engages with letter grades as instrumental means to an end: workforce employability, grad-school competitiveness, post-college salaries, and social mobility. At Pomona College, though, debates over grade inflation are also debates about what a liberal arts education should demand of its students.
OPINIONS: Weigh your options — psychiatric drugs are overprescribed
Liam Riley PO ‘26 discusses the prescription of psychiatric drugs in the U.S. He discusses the neurochemical model and how it can be a damaging way of looking at the world.
OPINION: We must associate the IDF with the evil that we know
If we truly believe the moral lessons history has taught us about evil, why do we fail to recognize — and reject — the same patterns unfolding today in Israel?
OPINION: Why aren’t college kids striking anymore?
American college students have a history of communicating demands to our government through protests and strikes. But how come we aren’t seeing very many campus strikes en masse in response to recent actions by this presidential administration that disregard our well-being?
OPINION: Jestermaxx before it’s too late
It is time that looksmaxxing is recognized for what it is: a repackaging of radicalism. It mimics ideologies implemented by totalitarian leaders, making self-improvement deeply intertwined with militant obedience, purification and traditionalism.
OPINION: In defense of the Mrs. Degree
“Attending college allows one to develop critical thinking skills and make more informed life decisions, and those decisions compound inside a family,” writes Grace Rutherford PO ‘28. “A woman’s choice to pursue motherhood on her own terms should be recognized as a legitimate expression of empowerment, not a retreat from it.”
OPINION: James Talarico presents a winning strategy to progressives nationwide
“The success of a progressive like James Talarico in the Texas election would bring great hope to many other regions in the United States and ultimately prove that America can overcome its present conservative challenges,” writes Rafael Hernandez Guerrero PZ ‘29. “Candidates like James Talarico present a unique chance for progressives to help Democrats gain the upper hand in Congress and prove themselves as representative of working class interests by actually working to reduce the political power wielded by billionaires if they win seats this upcoming election season.”
OPINION: Cooking from scratch won’t save people on SNAP
“From-scratch influencers and right-wing politicians are, of course, not the same people. They operate on entirely different playing fields, yet both groups perpetuate an oversimplified notion of what it takes to eat in ways they deem acceptable and necessary,” writes Zara Seldon PO ‘29. “No, most people do not have enough time or enough money to “just make fresh bread a few times a week.” Yes, launching a campaign founded on the assumption that Americans in poverty could “just eat healthy” if they tried is unreasonable.”