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.
The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act
Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting
Can a Spacesuit Designed for Mars Protect Us from the Next Pandemic?
NASA veteran Lawrence Kuznetz ’64SEAS, ’65SEAS builds apparel to shield humans from earthly and extraterrestrial ills
The Pollution Inside Your Home
Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them
How a College Reunion Led to a Revived Columbia Seminar
When alumni from the Class of 1966 reconnected with a beloved political-science professor, a virtual classroom was born
Abram Hewitt and the Disputed Election of 1876
How the campaign manager for Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden helped keep a contested presidential race in check
A Shrink Walks into a Gay Tiki Bar…
How Columbia psychiatry professor Robert Spitzer got homosexuality removed from the DSM’s list of mental disorders
How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject
Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf
The Tree Huggers of Columbia
Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts
Shake, Battle, and Roll
At Columbia’s Battle of the Bands, some 150 undergrads grooved to a mix of blues rock, R&B, indie, and folk rock from six student acts
A Response to Authoritarian Attacks on Universities
In his latest book, University: A Reckoning, former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger ’71LAW, ’02HON defends the role of higher education in America
The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence
Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today
Jennifer Crewe Retires from Columbia University Press
Good words flowed at a farewell party for the publisher’s longtime associate provost and director