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Studied Naiveté
Michael Stanislawski's grapples with the Enlightenment.
Grace Adee


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

Nicole Kohut
Broken for Love
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...
Benjamin DuBow


What’s Written and Said
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Edward Said and public intellectuals.

Sam Needleman


Michelle Shen
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...

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Blue Notes, April 2019
Columbia goes to space, Bill Kristol's Schermerhorn spiel, and professors debate left populism.

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Ending the Exception
Professors discuss amending the 13th Amendment to remove a troublesome clause.
Annie Zavitz


Jennifer Allen


Phoebe Forlenza
Phoebe Forlenza immediately strikes one as an easy-going and friendly person. She credits her parents with teaching her to show “respect...

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The Long Game
Columbia students are still debating Israel–Palestine after decades of little progress.
Ufon Umanah


Will You Take the Double?
Affirmative By Gi Ferrigine With you? My roommate of already the past three years? Of course! How could I not want to double with you?...
Gi Ferrigine and Nora May McSorley


Melody Tai
By Nicole Kohut Foregoing her chair in order to sit on the floor, accumulating balls of carpet fuzz, Melody Tai tells me she has been...

Nicole Kohut


Nia Quinones
By Sam Needleman On a balmy evening back in December, I carved an interlude in my preparations for the Lit Hum exam and trekked to East...

Sam Needleman



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From Myanmar to Barnard
A international conversation on the accountability and protection of the Rohingya.
Amad Ross
On the Edge
Tamar Vidra Let’s leave before dark, He said, But we found ourselves surrounded by something other than darkness For even the light beams...
Tamar Vidra
Poem on Home
By Hannah Liberman Silence slips through the slit under the doorway and fills the empty spaces of the home; piling up in the corners And...
Hannah Liberman


Cities in the Trump Era
Ananya Roy's cutting-edge urban theory.

Sam Needleman


The Spirit of General Studies
The Blue and White remembers a Conversation from 2011 with Dean Awn.

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Blue Notes, February 2019
Rostam Batmanglij at Lincoln Center, a Lit Hum prof in love, and eugenics at Barnard.

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