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Adam Patric Miller: Passing Through The Intersection

It made no sense to see him. He wore the leather coat he used to wear, an 8-ball on the back. Maybe this happens when you don’t acknowledge death.

December 17, 2025 · 3 Comments

Helen Benedict: Capitulation at Columbia

Fear and Loathing Under the New Rules

November 20, 2025 · 13 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF

My real life encounters with AI, however, mostly on plagiarized student papers, have proven that when it comes to inventive and even fantastical falsehoods, today’s AI not only surpasses our current president, but is in fact unwittingly in league with him. 

October 31, 2025 · 10 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: A Teacher’s End of the Year Reflection

I can choose to motivate students by manipulating their fear of grades or I can subvert their ideas about grades and inspire them to learn because a good human being becomes a better human being when they are learning for real.

July 16, 2025 · 11 Comments

Desne A. Crossley: Old Fist, Daniel and My Mom

Beneath the mildly disruptive playfulness, he was a bright kid waiting to be encouraged.

July 19, 2024 · 5 Comments

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

Bob Kunzinger: Moral Absolutism | Do Not Kill Children

Starvation is rampant and the conditions in Gaza have been called by Save the Children one of the “slowest, cruelest deaths” on record. It is a holocaust…

April 5, 2024 · 10 Comments

Stephen Haven: Iowa City, 1983

I remember best the cartography of each failed kindness…

September 27, 2023 · 2 Comments

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