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Searching for Nothing
The joys of the Book Culture browse.
Willa Neubauer
Rescuing Jouissance
A personal history of taking back the night.
Sophie Poole
Obedience: Act I
On “perfect passivity” and what it means to be Guai.
Styvalizh Uribe
In Our Solitude
On the pandemic’s post-crisis feeling of loss.
Sylvie Epstein
When Resiliency Runs Out
What happens when you can’t outrun your illnesses anymore?
Elysa Caso-McHugh
Labor of Love
Professor couples on their marriage of the head and the heart.
Maya Weed
“Students First”
Under Chegg’s corporate strategy, student insecurity is a marketable good.
Cy Gilman
The E-Word
An extended inquiry into Columbia’s coveted pile of oddly untouchable gold.
Lyla Trilling
The Limits of Accountability
A year on Columbia Debate Society.
Claire Shang
Who Are We Scrolling For?
Reflections on anonymity and abuse.
Kelsey Kitzke
“Big Problems” at Barnard
First-Year Experience directors offer bandaids for 2020’s many bullet holes.
Becky Miller
Pesky Pathologies
A wild goose chase for a therapist—in this economy!
Nicole Kohut
Fueling the Future
Climate activists and academics on Columbia's long-awaited divestment from fossil fuels.
Claire Schweitzer & Jai Qureshi
A Force for Good
Columbia Covid protocols in the Morningside area surface questions of care for our neighbors.
Annelie Hyatt
Posting Into the Void
You, me, and everyone else’s Substack newsletters.
Sophie Poole
Out of Housing and Home
For students who face housing insecurity, Columbia is as ruthless a landlord as any.
Elysa Caso-McHugh
The Formidable First
Black and South Asian students confront a nation as Kamala Harris enters the West Wing.
Victor Omojola
Striking for More Than Spare Change
Columbia YDSA leads a historic tuition strike for students, workers, and community members alike.
Eliza Rudelavige and Billie Forester
The Future is Femcel
Even in the celibate cybersphere, there’s a gender gap.
Chloë Gottlieb
Artists of Artifice
A dispatch from dispo culture.
Claire Shang
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