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Our Free Speech Crisis
Why the fight for free speech is the ground we stand on together.
Oct 26 • 
Alex Nagin
7
Secrets of Riverside Park
Transforming a “wasteland” into today’s Riverside Park cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars, more than fifty years, and no shortage of scandals
Oct 24 • 
Nick Baum
11
Summer Offensive: A Veteran's Perspective on Columbia’s Civic Culture
In Ukraine, I experienced comfort in a war zone. At Columbia, I experienced hostility for carrying the American flag.
Oct 23 • 
Sam Nahins
17
5
In Defense of Our Fathers
On the misapplication and perversion of feminism in Columbia’s Introduction to International Politics course
Oct 22 • 
Jessica Weinfeld
6
1
How Taiwan Travelogue Parallels Columbia’s Elitist Food Culture
Why the exploration of food and status in a novel about colonial-era Taiwan is relevant to our community today
Oct 21 • 
Xinyan Chen
14
8
“Last Marxist” Chris Cutrone Talks Charlie Kirk, Campus Protests, and Mahmoud Khalil
A conversation with one of the Left's leading free speech thinkers about the state of open discourse at Columbia
Oct 21 • 
Nikos Mohammadi
5
Why Don’t Columbia’s Pro-Palestinian Advocates Care About the Ceasefire?
Israel and Hamas agreed to a peace plan. Here’s why CUAD and other student groups won’t get behind it.
Oct 20 • 
Oren Hartstein
 and 
Nikos Mohammadi
15
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Dear Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union: Hands Off the Dual BA
TCDSU’s attempt to end the Dual BA with Columbia is not about protecting students—it’s about controlling them
Oct 16 • 
Alex Nagin
 and 
Artemis Edison
8
Honoring Dissent: Sundial’s Weekend at the CAFC Conference
What I, a free speech advocate, learned from academic heroes who refused to be silenced in the wake of intellectual persecution
Oct 16 • 
Imaan Chaudhry
8
1
AI Will Steal Your Finance Job—And That’s a Good Thing
Why the AI revolution could free Columbia from the tyranny of careerism
Oct 15 • 
Oren Hartstein
9
1
Orienting Ourselves With "Disorientation"
What the activist pamphlet circulated during the first weeks of school can teach us about the importance of pro-Palestinian thought at Columbia
Oct 12 • 
TJ Gill
2
What Charlie Kirk Taught Me About Being Conservative On a Liberal Campus
On navigating conservative values in an environment that rebukes them.
Oct 9 • 
Jessica Weinfeld
8
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