Identity

Where are you from?

Our backgrounds and identities may change based on our audience.

By Dmitriy Timerman | Mar 1 10:21 pm ET

More than knowledge

We are much more than what we know.

By Douglas Chalmers | Feb 7 09:57 pm ET

A man is but who he knoweth

Bacon's equation of self-worth with knowledge denies the relational element of our identity.

By Derek Turner | Feb 7 09:34 pm ET

Through the night

We don’t have to conquer our doubts to achieve well-being, we just have to share them.

By Samuel E. Roth | Jan 18 09:03 pm ET

No need for individual labels

Labels restrict our ability to form self-identity.

By Rae Binstock | Dec 4 06:05 pm ET

Anyone is everyone

Columbia's approach to diversity should focus on what we share, not how we differ.

By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj | Sep 14 08:39 pm ET

Football jihad

Redefining jihad: staging a "holy war" on the tainted perception of Muslim-Americans.

By Mirzya Syed | Sep 26 05:29 pm ET

My life as a hybrid

Despite the fact that the author spent her entire middle and high school careers south of the Mason-Dixon Line, she considers herself to be a New Yorker.

By Emily Hoffman | Nov 17 07:18 pm ET

Southern Discomfort

“Ah you drinkin’ a cawsmo-politan, Shh-awn?” drawled my eldest cousin, Britney.

By Sean Manning Udell | Feb 3 11:10 pm ET

Reporter Balances Objectivity, Personal Experience

Even before I arrived at Columbia, I knew I wanted to get involved with the newspaper.

By Daniel Amzallag | Jan 26 04:55 am ET

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