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
Meetings of the Minds
The Columbia University Seminars, one of academia’s shining (and somewhat secret) traditions, celebrates seventy-five years of free and civil dialogue
The Education of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Before she was a Supreme Court justice, RBG gained wisdom in Morningside Heights
How Mozart’s Librettist Became the Father of Italian Studies at Columbia
The curious cross-continental tale of Lorenzo Da Ponte
The Curator in a Time of Chaos
Through the pandemic, Wallach Art Gallery curator Betti-Sue Hertz has kept her eyes on the big picture with two new exhibitions
"Santa Baby" Changed My Life
For songwriter Philip Springer ’50CC, this Christmas classic is the gift that keeps on giving
An Incomplete History of Columbia's Connections to the Highest Office in the Land
From Washington's stepson to Hoover's surgeon
A Matter of Black Lives
African-American professors discuss police violence, protest, and change
Celebrating Florence Nightingale on Her 200th Birthday
Columbia’s dean of nursing honors the Lady with the Lamp
It Takes a Special Microscope to Fight Alzheimer’s
A supersensitive new instrument is helping Columbia scientists study the intricacies of neurodegenerative disease
Portrait of a Gen-Z Activist
Chelsea Miller '18CC, cofounder of Freedom March NYC, brings strategy, organization, and vision to a youth-led civil-rights group
How a Broken Wheel Led to the Birth of Modern Product-Liability Law
The 1916 court case MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., heard by Judge Benjamin Cardozo 1889CC, 1890GSAS, 1915HON, is still taught in law classes today
How Columbia Suffragists Fought for the Right of Women to Vote
More than a hundred years ago, Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. This is the little-known story of the women who helped make it happen