The Current

Cover of The Current, Fall 2007.

The Current is a journal of politics, culture and Jewish affairs. Founded by Bari Weiss and first printed in December 2005, The Current publishes essays on a broad range of subjects, with letters to the editor, an editorial, and book reviews appearing in each issue.

The Current's Spring 2007 issue was the first-ever Columbia publication to be printed in a 'green'--environmentally friendly--manner. The Current's paper is 100% Forest Stewardship Council certified, and 50% of it comes from recycled sources, of which 25% is post-consumer waste. Additionally, no chlorine or acids were used to bleach the paper or publish the journal. It is not yet known whether other Columbia publications will follow suit and move toward 'green' publishing.

The Current's work has been cited on blogs of w:The New Republic and w:National Review magazines, by w:Instapundit, the w:Volokh Conspiracy, and w:Minding the Campus.

Content

The Current has conducted interviews with w:Muhammad Yunus, w:Stanley Fish, Myron Kolatch and others. Its editorials have addressed issues such as university speech codes, controversial campus speakers, corporate divestment, humanitarian activism, the Saffron Revolution in Burma, and the history of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.

Each issue, The Current publishes an editorial, multiple essays and reviews, and two special sections: "Boroughing," and "The End of the World." As described in the Spring 2007 issue, "Boroughing" was "created as a counterpart to the End of the World section, which has provided lighter fare since Issue One. Boroughing presents exciting snapshots of only-in-New-York moments from around the city and here on campus."

Past covers

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  Cover of The Current, Spring 2007

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  Cover of The Current, Winter 2007

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  Cover of The Current, Fall 2006

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  Cover of The Current, Summer 2006

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  Cover of The Current, Spring2006

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  Cover of The Current, December 2005

External links

• The Current's website
• "The Current Goes Green," Columbia Spectator, 4/26/07.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2007/11/14/nadia-abdul-al-haj-columbia-university-and-arab-doctrine-the-jewish-commonwealth-never-existed.aspx

http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTUxMTIwNDIyMjFlYjE1MDM4ZjcwYzUxOTZhMDQ4ZTY=

http://instapundit.com/archives2/015237.php

http://www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_10-2008_02_16.shtml#1202797227

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/the-current-in-conversation.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/winter2007/stanley-fish.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/current-qa.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/summer2006/speechcodes.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2006/edification-not-provocation.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/winter2007/from-the-editors.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/from-the-editors.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/standing-with-the-saffron-revolution.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2008/from-the-editors.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/spring2007/to-our-readers.html