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Behind an Extraordinary Person

by Alex Katz

Condoleezza Rice shares thoughts on new memoir

Editor’s Note: A Needed Part of the Campus Discussion

by Tim Ford

The Stanford Review makes necessary contributions to dialogue at Stanford, and will continue to do so next year.

Military Recruitment to Affect SCOTUS Pick?

by Tim Ford

As President Obama draws closer to selecting his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, The New Republic and The Huffington Post have both argued that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is emerging as the possible front-runner for the nomination.  However, her stance on military recruitment – an issue covered at Stanford by [...]

Boomsday (or, Our Entitlement Bills Go Mainstream)

by Tim Ford

I never get to read as much as I like during the quarter, but over spring break I started reading WFB son and satirist Christopher Buckley‘s novel Boomsday, a fun read about a PR executive who leads a national campaign of public discontent (eerily similar to tea parties, now that I think about it) in [...]

Why is the ASSU Dysfunctional? Students

by Tim Ford

When student groups support candidates for ASSU for superficial reasons, it makes the ASSU more ineffective.

Talking while Biking

by Tim Ford

With fines of $255 for a first offense and $455 for a second offense, the bill could change the way Stanford students bike to class.

Constitutional Council Removes Senator

by Tim Ford

Over the past several months, there have been rumblings among Stanford’s ASSU junkies that the Constitutional Council is never used as frequently as it should be, and potential disputes get ignored rather than face definitive conclusions.  The Constitutional Council, as the body charged with overseeing the rules that govern the ASSU, exists for this very [...]

French House for Hutchison!

by Tim Ford

The next installment of my series of images from around campus, a favorite of mine: Now, we all know jokes about the French. And stereotypically speaking, there’s plenty of reasons to expect enmity between the French and Republicans.  So every time I walk or bike past La Maison Française, Stanford’s French culture theme residence for [...]

Is Pro-Life Religion-Neutral?

by Tim Ford

In a handful of posts this week, I’m going to present a few photos of images across campus and tie them to campus or political discourse.  Look out for them over the next few days.  This photo comes courtesy of Charlie Capps ’10. Do you need to be religious to be pro-life? That’s the subject [...]

Response Bias and Gay Politics in California, or I Can’t Believe I’m Using Something I Learned in POLISCI 2

by Tim Ford

It seems like every morning in my news sources anymore (if you’re interested in California politics, you should definitely be skimming through Rough & Tumble), there are a whole bunch of articles chronicling the federal trial in San Francisco that will determine whether Proposition 8 is discrimination that violates the U.S. Constitution (most recently, SJ [...]

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