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The Empty Theater of Discussion Sections
When attendance is mandatory and engagement is optional, what exactly is the point?
 • Uma Rajan
Professor John Wright on His Bittersweet Departure from Barnard
A candid chat with Barnard’s last Slavic Studies professor
 • Alex Nagin
The First Principles Approach
A reflection on the value of college
 • Emma Shen
Freedom, Equality, Sisterhood, Brotherhood
In Tatiana Mikhailova's classroom, there are no sloppy answers or wasted minutes—instead, she teaches you to bloom where you’re planted.
 • Alex Nagin
The Last Ivy Standing: Columbia’s Case for Remaining Test-Optional
As other highly selective institutions revive standardized testing requirements, Columbia’s decision not to follow aligns with their desired academic…
 • Uma Rajan
The Case Against Optimizing Our Education to Death
Columbia is embracing AI. Students are paying the price.
 • Xinyan Chen
Ivana Hughes and Tucker Carlson Bridge the Political Horseshoe
On a Columbia scientist’s unlikely conversation with one of America’s most polarizing media figures
 • Nikos Mohammadi
In Defense of Our Fathers
On the misapplication and perversion of feminism in Columbia’s Introduction to International Politics course
 • Jessica Weinfeld
Columbia Students Aren’t Talking About AI. That should concern you.
Failure to renew the AI debate will amplify our community’s shortcomings
 • Imaan Chaudhry
Affirmative Action, But Make It Conservative
An old liberal idea might just be the solution to a new conservative problem.
 • Oren Hartstein
The Intellectual Dark Web of Morningside Heights
Meet the public intellectuals, heterodox thinkers, and polymaths of Columbia that are keeping the spirit of intellectual wonder alive.
 • Nathan Darmon
The Abandonment of the True Core Curriculum
Columbia should focus on promoting the value of Western tradition, not mandating as many disciplines as possible.
 • Nikos Mohammadi
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