Claire ShangLetter from the Editor, May 2022By Claire Shang It’s May. Just when everyone feels they’ve gotten in the swing of things, suddenly everything is over. People are...
Claire ShangLetter from the Editor, April 2022Earlier this month, scrolling through Elon Musk–owned Twitter, I came across some 2020 data on the subscription base of Harper’s...
Claire ShangLetter from the Editor, March 2022This is my favorite time of year—just before spring unfurls in full, when each new day of sunlight still feels like a gift to be marveled...
Dominy Gallo and Lyla TrillingLetter From the Editor, December 2021I don’t know how I’ll ever write this last letter.
Dominy GalloLetter From the Editor, September 2021The Blue and White staff certainly looks good in blue and white.
Sam NeedlemanLetter From the Editor, December 2020Lacunae are, first and foremost, textual chasms—gaps on the page where something once was, or where something could be. They’re the...
Sam NeedlemanLetter From the Editor, November 2020By Sam Needleman Bereft of cohesion, and hardly expecting any looming events to provide it, our editors chose to bind this issue of The...
Sam NeedlemanLetter from the Editor, Orientation 2020Sam Needleman This month, in his profile of Anjali Verma (Off-Campus Characters, p. 12), Staff Writer Jaden Jarmel-Schneider writes about...
Sam NeedlemanLetter from the Editor, May 2020By Sam Needleman This isn’t how it was supposed to go! We were working on our April issue when the Bad News came, and we were forced to...
Ufon UmanahLetter from the Editor, December 2019Ufon Umanah Ah, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about, there it is, silly old Columbia. The more I write about it, the...
Ufon UmanahLetter from the Editor, April 2019By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...
Caroline HurleyLetter From the Editor, December 2018By Caroline Hurley You think you know someone until it comes time to buy them a Christmas gift. You’re frantically browsing Oprah...
Caroline HurleyLetter From the Editor, October 2018By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...
The Blue and White MagazineLetter From the Editor, Orientation 2018The first picture of me as a student on campus was taken unsurprisingly on move-in day, unsurprisingly by my mom. It’s a series of...
The Blue and White MagazineLetter From the Editor, May 2018I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...
The Blue and White MagazineLetter From the Editor, April 2018The Major League Baseball home opener for my hometown team is April 5th this year. The Yankees take to the diamond on April 2nd—who cares...