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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.’

Ins & Outs: February Edition

Meet Opinion's spring columnists!

Columbia’s rushed expansion will kill its institutional future

Call for editorial cartoons

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

Columbia’s Community Benefits Agreement with Harlem is not a benefit, it’s a performance

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

Separating the Columbia community’s public and private responses to antisemitism

Why Columbia’s unchecked expansion violates its educational mission

International and undocumented students need protection, not performance

Turning disagreement into discovery: Why we need open discourse at Columbia

Saving humanity a seat at the American table

Ins & Outs: January Edition

The return of Dadaism

Discourse and Debate: Preprofessionalism makes for a shallow education

Discourse and Debate: Preprofessionalism culture opens doors to opportunities in finance

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

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

Call for Spring Columnists

In defense of romantic commitment

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

You have no taste

The case for a Columbia tenants’ union

Letter to the Editor: AI is not inevitable

The collapse of imaginative spheres of political discourse at Columbia

Freedom of speech is not a mindset

What’s going on with College Walk?

What belonging at Columbia means when you’re Black, female, and nontraditional

The Tinder of politics is coming to New York City just in time for the mayoral election—and democracy needs it

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

Falling in and out of love with an institution

We recognize in the case of Rutgers historian Mark Bray a threat to us all

Columbia must now show courage and empathy

Yes, there is space for shared governance at Columbia

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the future is in your hands, and mine

Letter to the Editor: Spectator needs to write obituaries

Why Columbia needs Free Speech 101

Equality and global leadership: A 21st-century vision for Columbia

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

The Ivy League experience: Genocide and the ivory tower

Call for fall columnists

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

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