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What We Do [From the Editors]
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What We Do [From the Editors]

From the Editors | December 20, 2012

  Admittedly vague, The Current’s subtitle offers an interpretation of our publication’s purpose: a journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish...

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Zionism 101: Israel on Campus Needs a Return from Tactics to Ideology [From the Editors]
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Zionism 101: Israel on Campus Needs a Return from Tactics to Ideology [From the Editors]

From the Editors | June 13, 2012

Neuroticism, especially the Jewish kind, has gifted the world with many works of note. Where would we be today without Philip, Larry, or Woody? Yet, indulging our...

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From the Editors: The (Potentially) Diminished Dean of Columbia College
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From the Editors: The (Potentially) Diminished Dean of Columbia College

From the Editors | December 19, 2011

On August 21, 2011, visitors to Bwog, a Columbia student news blog, found a shocking headline staring back at them: “BREAKING: Dean Moody-Adams Resigns.” Michele...

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Editor’s Note
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Editor’s Note

From the Editors | November 13, 2011

The mainstream acceptance of social media as a tool for breaking news has reaped massive benefits. Most people of our generation found out about the death of Osama...

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From the Editors: The Spectator Needs to Raise Its Editorial Standards
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From the Editors: The Spectator Needs to Raise Its Editorial Standards

Cover Article, From the Editors | February 16, 2011

Cover from an 1880 volume of the Spectator’s issues. Among the many newsworthy events that hit Columbia’s campus last fall, one incident stood out—not because...

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From the Editors: Can the Liberal Arts Make Us Better American Citizens?
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From the Editors: Can the Liberal Arts Make Us Better American Citizens?

Cover Article, From the Editors | October 19, 2010

The notion that learning is a natural human impulse can be traced to our earliest thinkers. Aristotle, in the Metaphysics, proclaims, “All men by nature desire...

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From the Editors: Lost in Manhattanville
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From the Editors: Lost in Manhattanville

Cover Article, From the Editors | April 11, 2010

Columbia’s Pursuit of Eminent Domain in Manhattanville Threatens More than Just Property Rights Unbelievably, at least to those who have been following the years...

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From the Editor: The Makeup of the Teaching Movement
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From the Editor: The Makeup of the Teaching Movement

From the Editors | December 20, 2009

Barack and Michelle Obama visit a charter school in Washington D.C. Teach for America is not modest about its ambitions: it aims to “eliminate educational inequity.”...

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From the Editor: Naming the End in Iraq
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From the Editor: Naming the End in Iraq

From the Editors | November 11, 2009

A ceremony in Majaar Al Kabir, Iraq marking the June 30 withdrawal On the last day of June, American forces made their exit from Iraqi cities, more than six years...

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