By Miska Lewis Sometimes home reminded me of a classroom. It wasn’t that I got sleepy the moment I entered, or that there were rows and...

By Becky Miller The night of the tree lighting—a glamorous Columbia tradition where the whole university gathers on College Walk to watch...

By Michael Colton In the words of Dean James Valentini and a recent Columbia Confessions poster, “college is meant to be the most...

Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...

By Dariya Subkhanberdina As a loyal, if not compulsive, Depop shopper for years now, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat giddy while...

Confronting New York's sidewalk sheds. By Justin Liang Surely it must be classed among the seven wonders of New York, alongside the...

Affirmative By Becky Miller Yes, a princess would absolutely smack a pigeon between the thighs to assert her dominance over her sidewalk...

On designing the new Black studies curriculum for New York City public schools.

Getting from one side to the other.

The particulars of the School of General Studies.

Cast and creatives on the “Circusification of Hamlet.”

By Michaela Sawyer Kassia Karras, BC ’22, used to be known as “Mrs. UnlocktheSwehg.” These days, she sports the username “Purified Smoke”...

The Yassification of Columbia Admin

Columbia's history of minor mayhems.

Regarding Columbia's greatest failure. By Alexander Aibel To be quite honest, though I’ve been here for over two years, I haven’t entered...

Practicing people power.

By Skylar Wu Fonsphobia (Fear of Spring) Spring is the most plump, most miserable mushroom to ever grow out of my eyes. Teal and yellow...

On skinny white boys in skirts.

On the stories we tell and the stories we don’t about the women who don’t quite fit in.

By Will Lyman, with an introduction by Chloë Gottlieb and Daniel Seizer In April, we published the following piece. It follows a night in...