Paul Hond
Senior Editor
Paul joined Columbia Magazine in 2006. His pieces for the magazine have been reprinted in Longreads, Truthout, and Reader's Digest.
Articles by Paul Hond
How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject
Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf
The Tree Huggers of Columbia
Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts
Shake, Battle, and Roll
At Columbia’s Battle of the Bands, some 150 undergrads grooved to a mix of blues rock, R&B, indie, and folk rock from six student acts
A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities
In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America
The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence
Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today
Jennifer Crewe Retires from Columbia University Press
Good words flowed at a farewell party for the publisher’s longtime associate provost and director
The New Red Scare
A recent panel featuring Molly Jong-Fast ’97BC, Michael Meeropol, and others looked at the McCarthy era and its lessons for today
Lessons of Jewish History
For seventy-five years, the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia has connected the community to the currents of Jewish thought
Columbia’s Olympic Torch Bearer
Historian William Milligan Sloane 1868CC and the birth of the modern Olympic Games
How to Write (Persuasively) about the Climate Crisis
In a course on science writing, environmental journalist Bill McKibben suggested that people are more open to hearing about clean energy than they are about climate
20 Years of Modeling the Brain
At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior
How the Challenger Disaster Became a Case Study of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’
Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making