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Cornel West
Before the worms get your body.

Sam Needleman


David Simpson
On the criminal injustice system and the Remedy Project.

Edie Conekin-Tooze


Karen Green
On comics.

Hart Hallos and Jace Steiner


Ohad Meromi
On looms, lamps, and Lukásc.

Sam Needleman


Mina Seçkin
Oh no, I'm a writer.

Sophie Poole


Andrew Liu
On rereading Marx and coming to Asian Americanness.

Claire Shang


Melissa Clark
We always have to eat.

Lyla Trilling


The Noblest Architecture
Michael Henry Adams has spent his life preserving Harlem’s Black vitality.

Sam Needleman


The Loathing of Big Oil
Lawyer Steven Donziger speaks from home confinement on Chevron’s strategy to punish those holding them accountable for environmental atroc

Milan Loewer


All of That Stuff Gets Built!
Mabel O. Wilson on architecture and Blackness.

Sam Needleman


Little, Black, and Bold
Andi Owens, GS ’63, on Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Harlem walking tours, and being Black at Columbia in the ’60s.

Willa Neubauer


Views from the Picket Line
Columbia graduate workers cry out for change.

The Blue and White Magazine


Us and Our Broken Things
A conversation with Professor Sandra Goldmark on sustainability, art, and repairing “stuff culture.”

Elizabeth Jackson


Against the Punitive Society
Bernard Harcourt on critical praxis and abolition.

Cy Gilman


The “Wild Space of Thought”
Saidiya Hartman on undergrads and abolition.

Sam Needleman


Doodling Dissent
Sergio Peçanha on visual storytelling, journalism in the Trump era, and keeping your head up in the face of absurdity.

Dominy Gallo


The Neurons of Novels
It was a Thursday morning in September and, like any self-respecting undergraduate woefully majoring in English, I opened The New Yorker app

Sophie Poole
Pandemic Pedagogy
Jennifer Rosales on pedagogy for the Zoom era.

Brooke McCormick
Chores and Chainsaws
In lieu of luminaries, learning from a seasoned telecommuter.

Sylvie Epstein


Started from the Barnard
Maria Hinojosa on student journalism now.
Ufon Umanah
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