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From the Editors: The (Potentially) Diminished Dean of Columbia College
On August 21, 2011, visitors to Bwog, a Columbia student news blog, found a shocking headline staring back at them: “BREAKING: Dean Moody-Adams Resigns.” Michele...
Cloak and Pen: Harriman, the Government, & Sovietology
By Maddie Wolberg The start of the Cold War heralded something new for American academia. Fear of Soviet intentions and a desire to understand what was happening...
Refuge Rethought: Building a South Sudanese Kibbutz
By Shira Poliak When thousands of Jews began immigrating to then-Palestine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, few were prepared to confront the...
“This is your family. This is your people.” An Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg
By Jeremy Liss and David Fine Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, a Bloomberg View columnist, and a recipient of the National Magazine...
Review: The Case for Moral Intelligence
By Sam Schube On December 7, 2011, The Current hosted a panel discussion between Columbia Professors Mark Lilla and Adam Kirsch on Columbia’s campus. Moderated...
Review: Urban Reimagination & Post-Crisis Ideals
By Hannah Novack In 1942, shortly following the United States’ entry into World War II, Architectural Forum commissioned several well-known architects, including...
Review: In Defense of de Kooning
By Max Daniel The New York School, an informal collective of artists, poets, dancers, and musicians, emerged in the 1950s and generated much of the era’s underground...
Editor’s Note
The mainstream acceptance of social media as a tool for breaking news has reaped massive benefits. Most people of our generation found out about the death of Osama...
Hit and Run
In this year’s Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers strafed their way to victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers behind the otherworldly play of quarterback Aaron...
Stade Demba Diop
August Thirtieth, 2011 In Dakar, Senegal, in the quarter of Liberté, a man cuts my hair in a small room carved into side of Stade Demba Diop. Light brown skin,...