Jon Host is a graduate student at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs, concentrating in Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis. He is a contributing writer to The Morningside Post, SIPA's community blog.

Blog Entries by Jon Host

Seven Years Later, a Service Mandate

Posted September 11, 2008 | 10:43 PM (EST)


COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK -- It seems appropriate that on the seventh anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, both presidential candidates are here in New York, at a university, calling upon the need for national service.

As an entering college freshman, I was ready for that call after September...

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Columbia's "Controversy"

Posted September 24, 2007 | 04:39 PM (EST)


Leading up to today's event, which I attended, I kept hearing and reading that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a "controversial" figure. But controversy implies a dispute, and there seems to be a unanimous consensus on campus that the Iranian president is repugnant, and his world views reprehensible.

For...

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