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.
Can the World’s Religions Help Save Us from Ecological Peril?
Scholars and religious leaders argue that a spiritual connection to nature is essential for environmental recovery
Columbia’s Neiman Center for Print Studies Celebrates 25 Years
Kiki Smith, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Kara Walker, Dana Schutz, and other notable artists have left their imprints on the space
Laura Kavanagh Climbs the Leadership Ladder at the FDNY
New York City’s first female fire commissioner is modernizing the department and inspiring a new generation of first responders
A New Columbia Marching Band Tunes Up
The strains of “Roar, Lion, Roar” are heard once again at sporting events
A Columbia Halloween
Vampires, ghosts, haunted houses, telekinetic prom queens: seven short, shivering alumni tales
How the Mankiewicz Family Got Their Hollywood Ending
How Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz ’92JRN brought a four-generation Columbia family all together
The Troubling Legal Implications of Overturning Roe
Columbia law professors Olatunde Johnson and Carol Sanger assess a momentous Supreme Court decision
Screenwriter Ivan Rome Looks Homeward
As the inaugural recipient of the Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Scholarship, the MFA student takes inspiration from his native Georgia
Honoring George Chauncey, a Scholar of Gay History
The Columbia professor recently won the coveted John W. Kluge Prize
How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.