Power Corrupts in Beijing Beijing’s preparation for the Olympics is a double-sided story: China has made great economic strides over the past two decades, allowing unprecedented individual freedom to participate and compete in Christopher Fish 27 Sep 2007
Editor’s Note As we arrive on and return to campus, and as we usher in another year at Stanford, it seems appropriate to offer a restatement of what the Stanford Review is, Christopher Fish 27 Sep 2007
Romney in Best Shape for GOP Nod The first presidential election in fifty-six years without an incumbent president or vice president on the ballot has surprised politicos and challenged conventional wisdom, seemingly at every turn. No one tford 27 Sep 2007
News Analysis: Smoking in Stanford Stanford introduced two anti-smoking policies during the summer holidays, both effective as of September 1. First, the School of Medicine has banned outdoor smoking. Second, the Stanford Benefits and the seck 27 Sep 2007
Lost and Conservative? Opportunities Abound at Stanford In 2004, novelist Tom Wolfe penned the novel I am Charlotte Simmons, lambasting the binge drinking, sexually promiscuous, image-oriented culture of the typical American college campus. Wolfe loosely based the Christopher Fish 27 Sep 2007
Wake Me Up in September When the Football Season Starts With the new-found optimism that surrounds Stanford basketball, some students have started a Facebook group called “I Want to Co-Term Just for Stanford Basketball.” Someone who cares as much about Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007
China expert and Former Presidential Advisor talks East Asian, American politics A small while ago, I had the privilege to talk with Bruce Herschensohn, currently a professor at Pepperdine who has advised both Presidents Nixon and Reagan on issues concerning Taiwan Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007
Final Agreement Reached in Khmer Rouge Trial Negotiations Although it has been nearly thirty years since the Cambodian Khmer Rouge was ousted from power, its leaders have yet to be tried for the human rights atrocities of their Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007
The Sun Sets on Tony Blair British Prime Minister Tony Blair, winner of three consecutive elections and in power for a decade, has announced that he will submit his resignation to the Queen on June 27th. Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007
La Présidentielle: The Aftermath Nicolas Sarkozy, leader of the right-centrist party, was sworn in as the 23rd President of the French Republic on May 16, 2007, after defeating the Socialist candidate, Ségoléne Royal. The Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007
A Return to Isolationism Leading Republicans and Democrats generally agree that America should have an interventionist foreign policy, although they differ on the details. The post-Iraq mood of the American people, however, hints at seck 7 Jun 2007
Arguing For and Against Genetic Engineering Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel recently spoke at Stanford on the subject of his new book, The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. He focused on the seck 7 Jun 2007
On Illegal Students and Illegal Immigrants “IMPOSTER CAUGHT,” rang the Stanford Daily headlines. When it was discovered that a young woman, Azia Kim, had managed to falsely pass herself off as a Stanford freshman for eight seck 7 Jun 2007
Strategy and Legitimacy: Exclusive Interview with Wesley Clark Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) spoke about post-Cold War American policy on May 24 to a full crowd in the Hewlett Teaching Center. “Stanford is so wonderful, the students are Christopher Fish 7 Jun 2007