October 2025

Our Free Speech Crisis

Why the fight for free speech is the ground we stand on together.

Oct 26, 2025 • Alex Nagin

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, 2025 • Nick Baum

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, 2025 • Sam Nahins

In Defense of Our Fathers

On the misapplication and perversion of feminism in Columbia’s Introduction to International Politics course

Oct 22, 2025 • Jessica Weinfeld

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, 2025 • Xinyan Chen

“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, 2025 • Nikos Mohammadi

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, 2025 • Imaan Chaudhry

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, 2025 • Oren Hartstein

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, 2025 • TJ Gill

What Charlie Kirk Taught Me About Being Conservative On a Liberal Campus

On navigating conservative values in an environment that rebukes them.

Oct 9, 2025 • Jessica Weinfeld

From Morris Hillquit to Zohran Mamdani

What we can learn from the socialist mayoral candidate who ran more than 100 years ago about the power of slogans, nuance, and free speech.

Sep 13, 2025 • Rebecca Kobrin

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is Columbia’s Litmus Test

The conservative activist may have been contentious, but we can learn from his commitment to free speech.

Sep 12, 2025 • Nikos Mohammadi and Shoshana Aufzien

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