The Blue and White continues its short fiction series with a story from a recent graduate from Columbia College.

Affirmative By Nora May McSorley If you’re considering it, then you may actually have the brains admissions thinks you do. Otherwise, you...

It’s not that being a part of the Columbia Democrats and serving as their president last year was out of the question for Joanna Cohen...

On average, Sean Kelso sees a new movie every week. One of his most recent favorites was The Art of Self-Defense, a small-release film...

Illustration by Mwandeyi Kamwendo

“Don’t be afraid,” starts A Mercy, Toni Morrison’s ninth novel. No, it’s not the book we read for Lit Hum, but it was the first time I...

Administrative chicanery, Wu + Nussbaum's glow-up, and the peacocks of St. John's.

By Kate Steiner

By Jacob Snyder Are you easily fatigued? Are you often disorganized or indecisive? Do you experience recurrent disturbances in appetite?...

By Drazen Medina Many of us pass through these years at our respective schools wondering what mark, if any, we have made on our peers and...

For Israeli Apartheid Week, Professor Joseph Massad draws connections between Zionism and anti-Semitism.

The Blue and White takes a long-range look at Barnard Public Safety By The Blue and White Before the encounter on April 11, 2019–you have...

By Ufon Umanah There’s no more important task before us than the preservation of history. I’m not saying this because without history,...

Michael Stanislawski's grapples with the Enlightenment.

Students are reviving a late '80s protest in honor of Women’s History Month.

Benjamin DuBow I saw the Taj Mahal before it saw the Sun and noticed, in the fragile light of dawn, that it was crying. “Why, O Taj, do...

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Edward Said and public intellectuals.

By Kate Iida “I would say my music falls into the singer-songwriter genre,” Michelle Shen began, sitting across from me in the dimly lit...