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Summer 2008

Summer 2018 cover of Columbia Magazine featuring illustration by Daniel Bejar
Illustration by Daniel Bejar of American bald eagle stuck in an oil rig

States of Dependence

Can America withstand the world's thirst for oil?

Features

Harlem on a Roll
Harlem Lanes
Alumni

Harlem on a Roll

Entrepreneur Sharon Joseph brings a long-lost pastime back home

Trilling's Journey Resumed
Illustration of Lionel Trilling by Hadley Hooper
Books

Trilling's Journey Resumed

An excerpt from Lionel Trilling's newly discovered unfinished novel

Who Will Tell Amelia?
Illustration by Vivienne Flesher of a mother and daughter with heads overlapping in Venn diagram
Health & Medicine

Who Will Tell Amelia?

What does a physician or therapist do when she is caring for two patients whose rights conflict?

On Profits and Prophets
Statistics and economics professor Samuel B. Richmond with B-School dean Boris Yavitz in 1976
Alumni

On Profits and Prophets

For a young man from South L.A., the B-School was a path to a higher calling

College Walk

Red Leather Days
Illustration by Mark Steele of Florence Wolfson Howitt and Lily Koppel
Books

Red Leather Days

A journalist writes a book based on a ninety-year-old woman's discarded, long-forgotten diary

McBlogger
Illustration by Mark Steele of John McCain campaigning for president in 2008 with Meghan McCain blogging behind him
Alumni

McBlogger

Meghan McCain '07CC starts a blog to promote her father's presidential campaign

Back to Black
Black
Arts & Humanities

Back to Black

An exhibition of paintings by Ad Reinhardt '35CC at the Guggenheim

Explorations

Study Links Thousands of Ecological Changes to Human-Induced Warming
Emperor penguins in Antarctica
Science & Technology

Study Links Thousands of Ecological Changes to Human-Induced Warming

A paper from Columbia is the first to formally connect specific instances of environmental disruption to greenhouse gas emissions

Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment
James Hansen addressing a congressional global warming committee
Science & Technology

Hansen to Congress: Time is Running Out to Save Environment

The Columbia professor recently returned to Capitol Hill

Greenhouse Blowback?
Map of world water supplies
Science & Technology

Greenhouse Blowback?

Many U.S. lawmakers worry that global crises are more likely to occur as the planet warms

CO2 May Get Ocean Burial
Diagram of CO2 buried underground
Science & Technology

CO2 May Get Ocean Burial

Scientists say we need to minimize the amount of carbon dioxide that coal factories spew into the air, in addition to developing cleaner forms of energy

Let's See if It Floats
Map of New York City with hypothetical flooding from a hurricane after significant sea-level rise
Science & Technology

Let's See if It Floats

Columbia scientists are helping New York officials figure out how to prepare for rising sea levels

Books

Review: "Names on the Land"
Cover of Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart
Books

Review: "Names on the Land"

A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS

Review: "Terror and Consent"
Cover of Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt
Books

Review: "Terror and Consent"

The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt

Review: "A Shattered Peace"
Germans scrapping their war machines in 1919 under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
Books

Review: "A Shattered Peace"

Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, by David A. Andelman '66JRN

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