Opinion

Postcrypt? Priceless.

By Kate Reburn & Sarah Leonard | Feb 7 07:07 pm ET

Why would the school want to close “one of Columbia’s open secrets” and “an effortlessly cool place on campus”?

Don't paint by numbers

By Victoria Fox | Feb 7 07:30 pm ET

In the wake of heavy budget cuts and increased standardized testing, the value of arts is just as easily stowed away with the lukewarm promise that it will be dealt with at a more convenient date as it is lauded.

Minority Report

By Editorial Board | Feb 7 09:42 pm ET

Students who do not identify with a minority group may have no idea that these listservs exist.

Is Columbia scared of its students?

By Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein | Feb 7 07:10 pm ET

Time after time, Columbia University seems to disregard or even actively minimize the input of students as if the powers that be are scared that students can’t appreciate nuance or complexity.

STAFF EDITORIALS »

Minority Report

By Editorial Board | Feb 7 09:42 pm ET

Students who do not identify with a minority group may have no idea that these listservs exist.

Journey to the Global Center of the Earth

By Editorial Board | Jan 28 10:26 pm ET

Established after the king and queen of Jordan offered a facility, the Global Center in Amman marks a tangible step from Columbia University in the City of New York to Columbia University of the Wider World.

COLUMNS »

The university lifestyle line

By Amanda Gutterman | Feb 8 06:22 pm ET

Appealing to an older and wealthier demographic, expensive college-wear transcends the name or reputation of a particular institution and rather serves as an affirmation of an idealized collegiate lifestyle.

Postcrypt? Priceless.

By Kate Reburn & Sarah Leonard | Feb 7 07:07 pm ET

Why would the school want to close “one of Columbia’s open secrets” and “an effortlessly cool place on campus”?

OP-EDS »

Don't paint by numbers

By Victoria Fox | Feb 7 07:30 pm ET

In the wake of heavy budget cuts and increased standardized testing, the value of arts is just as easily stowed away with the lukewarm promise that it will be dealt with at a more convenient date as it is lauded.

Is Columbia scared of its students?

By Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein | Feb 7 07:10 pm ET

Time after time, Columbia University seems to disregard or even actively minimize the input of students as if the powers that be are scared that students can’t appreciate nuance or complexity.

Haiti, “Security,” and Public Health

By Edna Bonhomme | Feb 3 09:31 pm ET

Classifying Haitians as violent through policy and practice limits the capacity that community leaders can build infrastructure in the country and reproduces racialized depictions of black political resistance.

Decline—and fall?—at the Washington Post

By Jeremy Feldman, Ian O’Brien, Gabe Kuperminc, Eric Laursen, Elizabeth Greene, Bram Moreinis, and Nick Romanenko, and Aaron Freiwald | Feb 2 07:26 pm ET

As Spectator alumni, we find the Post’s tie-up with “The Fiscal Times” disturbing for several reasons.

EDITORIAL CARTOONS »

Jody's Drawings!

By Jody Zellman | Feb 4 11:14 pm ET

AS I SEE IT »

  • As I See It: the Italian Baker

    Each day the same white shirt and light jean overalls. Impeccably clean, ready to become freshly dirtied each night. Each day he drives in his small white car to collect branches, which he ties in bundles to his roof, to fuel the last wood burning bread oven in Spoleto, a small town in central Italy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR »

What I don’t like about like

By Robert J. von Gutfeld | Jan 27 09:38 pm ET

While I appreciate Ms. Gutterman’s explanation of how this verbal tic became part of everyday speech for many, to me the constant use of the word “like” sounds like a pause to get one’s disjointed thinking to congeal.

A fond farewell to John David Fernandez

By Shira Borzak and Amin Ghadimi | Jan 20 08:07 pm ET

Letter to the editor

By Silvia Puma, Orly Stampfer, Linda Ma, Laura Chen, Iman Hassan, and Anna Newman | Dec 25 04:30 am ET

WEST SIDE STORIES »

Scribble away

By Pedro Sagesser Rodrigues | Dec 8 08:09 pm ET

These principles already existed somewhere, they were already my beliefs—but it took some unconsciously jotted down words for me to become familiar with them.

Eventually

By Ena Brdjanovic | Dec 1 07:15 pm ET

My life as a hybrid

By Emily Hoffman | Nov 17 07:18 pm ET

Commentariat Blog »

  • Don’t Waste Your Vote: Vote Green!

    As I noted in a number of recent opinion pieces — first in a Letter to the Editor in the Spectator, then in a blog post on The Politicizer — I’ve expressed my support for Green Party candidate the Reverend Billy Talen, and railed against the idea that a vote for him is a wasted

  • Will Columbia professors continue writing for Al Ahram?

    …after the Pan-Arabist paper initiated a paranoiacally thorough boycott of Israel? I doubt that Al Ahram’s boycott will faze the pathologically anti-Israel Hamid Dabashi or Joseph Massad, who are occasional contributors to the racist newspaper’s English-language website.

  • Taylor Swiftboating Obama

    I’d like to preface my first post with the disclaimer that I genuinely feel uncomfortable pulling out the race card.

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