Archive - Columbia Sundial

Meet the Sundial Senior Staff

The article that finally made it out of the group chat

Feb 16 • Sundial

The Little Synagogue That Could

In the 1920s, Harlem was home to roughly 200 synagogues. Now, only one remains.

Feb 15 • Nick Baum

Resisting Abstraction: Towards a Truer Cosmopolitanism

It’s time Columbia trades our globalizing tendencies for true love of thy neighbor.

Feb 14 • Chloe Hoyle

Stop Arguing Like a Progressive

A response to Elisha Baker’s article published in The Columbia Daily Spectator last December titled “On the abuse of faculty immunity”

Feb 13 • Imaan Chaudhry

Inside the Mind of Columbia’s “Surpassing Daughter”

I, a progressive, sat down with Sherry Chen to understand her eccentric “MAGA” politics

Feb 13 • Daisy Zhang

The Violence of Amnesia

A gun sense advocate’s reflections on the Brown shooting

Feb 11 • Xinyan Chen

SUNDIAL EXCLUSIVE: Higher-Ups at Columbia’s College of Dental Medicine Manipulated Admissions for Epstein’s Girlfriend

Epstein files show girlfriend received admissions favoritism and professors took his funding after 2008 conviction

Feb 10 • Xinyan Chen

January 2026

The Local Significance of the "Mamdani Moment"

A response to Sid Zadey’s November 18 op-ed in The Columbia Daily Spectator, “The global significance of the ‘Mamdani Moment’”

Jan 16 • Finn Witham

December 2025

Disagreement Is Not Disqualification

An outsider’s perspective on the Sundial and Columbia Political Review anonymity debate

Dec 20, 2025 • Eric Li

Zionism Is a Political Ideology. Stop Pretending It’s Not.

A response to Avi Litvak and Rafael Vanuno’s recent op-ed, “Dispelling Misconceptions About Students Supporting Israel”

Dec 17, 2025 • Noah Edelman

Dispelling Misconceptions About Students Supporting Israel

Contrary to what many believe, we are a nonpartisan cultural community, not an ideological one.

Dec 17, 2025 • Avi Litvak and Rafael Vanuno

No, Columbia Is Not a Democracy

The Student Affairs Committee misrepresented the Statute amendments. It’s time to set the record straight.

Dec 9, 2025 • Shoshana Aufzien

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