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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
On Being Mousy
Mousy: (of a person) nervous, shy, or timid; lacking in presence or charisma.
 • Chloe Hoyle
Does Diversity Fit Into “Masterpieces of Western Literature”?
Columbia struggles to reconcile the historic Core with today’s political climate.
 • Uma Rajan
He Outsmarted Amazon. Columbia Kicked Him Out.
Roy Lee was suspended for developing an AI tool to ace coding interviews—now his company is raking in over $200k a month.
 • Nick Chimicles
Meet the Columbia Academics at War With Western Civilization
The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought is rethinking everything—starting with liberal democracy.
 • Oren Hartstein
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