Spectator Opinion

Spectator Opinion has been a member of Linktree for 7 months and joined in November 2025. The social media accounts linked to from Spectator Opinion are: • Instagram Besides social media accounts, specopinion has populated their site with: • Living the gap: What I learned this Mother’s Day about equity at Columbia • Love, not hate, makes America great • Shipman betrays her profession and the Journalism School • Letter to the Editor: The Columbia fencing alumni advisory committee defends Michael Aufrichtig • Spectator editorial board’s endorsements for the 2026-27 student council and University Senate elections • Call for candidates: Apply for Spectator’s editorial board spring 2026 student representative endorsements • Foreign students and scholars are a gift to America • Open Letter: Barnard must cut ties with Epstein associates • Ins & Outs: April Fools Edition • The danger of Columbia’s mask ban on campus speech and safety • A year of ‘acting’ presidency: What will be the legacy of the Shipman era? • People are trading traditional news for social media. It’s coming at a cost. • Am I the main character? • A bigger class, a smaller voice: why we must reclaim our vote • On protecting the professors you hate • Here’s what Columbia can actually do to protect its international students • If sisterhood is really for everyone, Columbia needs more sororities • If Columbia truly stands with its immigrant community, it must say more than ‘The agents took our student.’ • Columbia’s rushed expansion will kill its institutional future • Ins & Outs: February Edition • Call for editorial cartoons • Meet Opinion's spring columnists! • Open Letter: Toward real freedom of expression • To incoming University President Mnookin: Please don’t let artificial intelligence devalue the liberal arts • Introducing Spectator’s 150th spring editorial board • Spectator Opinion: Discourse and Debate interest form • Columbia’s Community Benefits Agreement with Harlem is not a benefit, it’s a performance • Separating the Columbia community’s public and private responses to antisemitism • Columbia cannot stay silent as the Trump administration weaponizes ICE • Columbia must answer for its Epstein ties • The Scope: Preprofessionalism and Purpose of College Education • Why Columbia’s unchecked expansion violates its educational mission • International and undocumented students need protection, not performance • Ins & Outs: January Edition • The return of Dadaism • Saving humanity a seat at the American table • Turning disagreement into discovery: Why we need open discourse at Columbia • Discourse and Debate: Preprofessionalism culture opens doors to opportunities in finance • Discourse and Debate: Preprofessionalism makes for a shallow education • Discourse and Debate: Don’t let preprofessionalism do the thinking for you • Discourse and Debate: The promise of preprofessionalism lies in community building • Discourse and Debate: Open inquiry and intellectual curiosity can reform our culture of preprofessionalism • Call for Spring Columnists • Columbia’s liberal arts education is the key to your preprofessional development • At Columbia, political conformity inhibits curiosity • Columbia’s actions facilitate the politicization of my ethnicity • In defense of romantic commitment • Submission Guidelines • Yes, Columbia needs more conservative professors • The Ivy League viewed the Brown shooting as a surprise. It’s a wake-up call. • In defense of the B • My Chinese heritage enriches my American dream • Letter from the Editor: The power of a byline • Ode to the Core • On the abuse of faculty immunity • Proactive capital planning and support for libraries is overdue • The Scope Columbia Presidents • The African Studies deficit no one talks about at Columbia • Barnard’s first-year course restrictions reveal a deeper imbalance • In search of effective leadership: Spectator Editorial Board on Columbia’s next president • Young voters aren’t politically apathetic, they’re fed up • A Game of Debt • Mamdani’s mandate: What the mayor-elect owes young New Yorkers and what his supporters owe him • 771 Days • Letter to the Editor: Democratic revival must be progressive • The Tinder of politics is coming to New York City just in time for the mayoral election—and democracy needs it • What belonging at Columbia means when you’re Black, female, and nontraditional • What’s going on with College Walk? • Freedom of speech is not a mindset • The collapse of imaginative spheres of political discourse at Columbia • Letter to the Editor: AI is not inevitable • The case for a Columbia tenants’ union • Opinion Content • You have no taste • Contact Us • AI is here to stay. What does that mean for Columbia? • No student is safe: How Columbia’s statute changes impact us all • Fascism is not a looming threat. It is upon us now. • To Columbia, I’ll steal • I’m a progressive, and I’m proud that María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize • We recognize in the case of Rutgers historian Mark Bray a threat to us all • Falling in and out of love with an institution • Columbia must now show courage and empathy • After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the future is in your hands, and mine • Yes, there is space for shared governance at Columbia • Letter to the Editor: Spectator needs to write obituaries • Why Columbia needs Free Speech 101 • Letter from the Editor: With the media in crisis, the editorial page matters more than ever • At Columbia, political engagement has become unavoidable • Letter to the Editor: In defense of the HEALS survey • Equality and global leadership: A 21st-century vision for Columbia • The Ivy League experience: Genocide and the ivory tower • Barnard’s silence on financial aid is failing low-income students • New chapter, preserved mission • No, Zionism doesn’t mean whatever you say it does • Anti-Zionism versus antisemitism: A primer • Call for fall columnists • Letter to the Editor: Columbia, Harvard, and the weaponization of antisemitism • Spectator’s editorial board endorses Zohran Mamdani as top pick for mayoral primary, urges against ranking Cuomo