Features
Trilling's Journey Resumed
An excerpt from Lionel Trilling's newly discovered unfinished novel
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
For a young man from South L.A., the B-School was a path to a higher calling
College Walk
Red Leather Days
A journalist writes a book based on a ninety-year-old woman's discarded, long-forgotten diary
Explorations
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
The Columbia professor recently returned to Capitol Hill
Greenhouse Blowback?
Many U.S. lawmakers worry that global crises are more likely to occur as the planet warms
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
Columbia scientists are helping New York officials figure out how to prepare for rising sea levels
Books
Review: "Names on the Land"
A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS
Review: "A Shattered Peace"
Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, by David A. Andelman '66JRN