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 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
The Many Shades of Authoritarianism
At Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute, pro-democracy activists from four different countries shared stories of repression and resilience
Can We Stop the Next Pandemic?
Hit with budget cuts, Columbia’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics is working to get ahead of the next mass outbreak
The Strange Saga of Columbia’s Nuclear Reactor
A plan to build an atom-splitter in Mudd Hall divided the campus. Was the uproar an overreaction?
William Samuel Johnson and the First US Thanksgiving
How a Columbia president helped establish the American holiday
Dial M for Morningside: Hitchcock at Columbia
In 1972, film-studies professor Stefan Sharff brought his idol Alfred Hitchcock to campus to receive a Doctor of Humane Letters
Tenement Museum President Annie Polland Opens Doors to the Immigrant Past
How the leader of the venerable Lower East Side institution preserves New York City’s multicultural history
This Columbian Cowrote the Bible of SNL
Fifty years after Saturday Night Live’s premiere, Doug Hill ’76JRN looks back on his influential 1986 book
Avery Library’s Newest Treasures
The library’s first public exhibition in five years showcased recent acquisitions from Frances Halsband, Michael Sorkin ’71GSAS, and others
How Do You Write the Story of Mike Tyson?
For Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson, Mark Kriegel ’86JRN had to revisit his own past as a sportswriter