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Why College Turns People Into Socialists
This essay originally appeared in Minding the Campus.
When socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani got elected last year in New York, no one was surprised to learn that the majority of his supporters held four-year university degrees. After all, it...
Which Dostoyevsky Translation Should You Read? (A Brutally Honest Guide)
Which translation of Dostoyevsky should I read?
Well… none of them.
To this day, I have no good answer to the most common question I get from fans. Sure, there are “good” translations, and “bad” translations, but I’ve never come across a...
Columbia Taught Me Socialism. These Books Taught Me the Truth.
At Columbia University, we read every socialist theorist under the sun—from Theodor Adorno to Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon to Karl Marx himself.
But we never read the other side of the aisle.
In colleges across the nation, socialism ha...
I Thought I Was Going to Study Literature at Columbia. I Was Wrong.
When I first moved to New York City, my entire world went up in flames.
I was starry-eyed, ambitious, and eighteen. I had just achieved my lifelong dream of studying English literature at one of the best universities in the world—an Ivy Le...
Your “Harmless Crush” Is a Problem
“The secret to a great marriage,” says E.J. Dickson in a viral The Cut article from earlier this month, is having “crushes on other people.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I don’t think it is.
I’m still young and unmarrie...
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