Vox Populi

A curated webspace for Poetry, Politics, and Nature with over 20,000 daily subscribers and over 8,000 archived posts.

Helen Benedict: Capitulation at Columbia

Fear and Loathing Under the New Rules

November 20, 2025 · 13 Comments

Nancy Kricorian: Applying Lessons From the Armenian Genocide to Gaza

All our institutions in the U.S. as well as in Europe—the government, the media, arts organizations, and the academy—with few exceptions, were colluding with and covering for what was recognizable as a genocide.

May 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

Zeina Azzam: My love, how can I contact you? حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

They handcuffed him, didn’t listen when he’d speak,
callously severing him from his home
as his wife cried, حبيبي، كيف بدي اتصل فيك؟

April 18, 2025 · 3 Comments

Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil 

As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.

April 18, 2025 · 4 Comments

Sam Carliner: How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression

As universities and the government crack down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped.    

March 17, 2025 · 5 Comments

Video: Please Listen To This Professor At Columbia

Dr. Bruce Robbins, a Jewish professor at Columbia University, speaks to the problem with using false anti-semitism charges to distract from the most important issues.

May 17, 2024 · 8 Comments

Norman Solomon: War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young

In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture

May 10, 2024 · 1 Comment

Mark Rudd: Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68

What is the ethical response to witnessing a great moral crime?

May 8, 2024 · 7 Comments

Rachel Hadas: Screen and Dream

It wasn’t a dream, but the experience was dreamlike: across the computer screen, one day last week, a photograph of my father, sent by some well-meaning distant acquaintance, flashed without warning. In this black-and-white photo, Moses Hadas is sitting at the desk in his office…

March 4, 2021 · Leave a comment

Archives