climate change Economists Tackle Climate Change At a recent Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR [http://siepr.stanford.edu/]) Policy Forum, speakers addressed the issue of “ Using Economics to Confront Climate Change [http://www.stanford. Alex Katz 1 Nov 2009
Conservatives Respond to Gao Take it away, Tommy Schultz (President of the Stanford Conservative Society): *This past Friday, Shelley Gao published in the Stanford Daily a litany of attacks on the conservative community and Alex Katz 13 Oct 2009
Economics Get Your Wager On [http://nobelprize.org/] [![My moneys on Taylor.](http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/archives/images/set3/horse-racing.jpg)]() My money's on Taylor.Nobel Prize season is beginning to heat Alex Katz 8 Oct 2009
Fukuyama to the Farm ![Frank Fukuyama is Stanford bound.](/content/images/Frank_pub_11-05-300x214.jpg "Frank_pub_11-05")Frank Fukuyama is Stanford bound.How does a country get to be Denmark? This Alex Katz 14 Sep 2009
FSI Director Blacker on Fukuyama ![Francis Fukuyama](http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/francis-fukuyama.jpg) Francis FukuyamaThe first issue of Volume 43 of *The Stanford Review* is now out! In the new issue, we’ Alex Katz 13 Sep 2009
Economics Just a Bunch of Hoover Sell-Outs ![I sure love over-simplified representations of the entire economics field, dont you?](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/06/magazine/06economic.3-190.jpg) I sure love over-simplified representations of Alex Katz 11 Sep 2009
Initial Reactions to Obamacare Redux ![Obama appealing to his party -- but will it be enough?](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/09/us/10obama_600.jpg)Obama appealing to his party -- but Alex Katz 9 Sep 2009
Indoctrination Indeed The text of Obama’s upcoming school address [http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/] has been released, and it is chock full of socialist references, such as: > I’m Alex Katz 7 Sep 2009
The Downfall of Multitasking Stanford’s always active science labs have received much attention over the summer. Radiologists at the Stanford School of Medicine performed a CT scan on a 2,500-year-old mummy [http: Alex Katz 31 Aug 2009
Economics On the Fat and the Fleet-Footed ![](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/16/sports/17bolt4_450.jpg)Usain Bolt fighting for humanity.On Sunday, Usain Bolt [shattered](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/sports/ Alex Katz 17 Aug 2009
iHum and the iPhone ![IHUM gets the credit for this?](http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/imgcache/27745.png)In a [recent article in *Inside Higher Ed*](http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/08/13/ Alex Katz 13 Aug 2009
Philip Zimbardo Goes to Hollywood That’s right, folks — Zimbardo is headed for Hollywood. Well, not exactly — the famed “prison study” that Stanford’s own Professor Philip Zimbardo performed in 1971 will be the basis Alex Katz 4 Aug 2009
John Taylor on "Cash for Clunkers" An article entitled “Trade-In Program Tunes Up Economic Engine” [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124934426743203057.html] in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses the economic effects of the Obama administration’ Alex Katz 3 Aug 2009
A Look at Stanford’s Endowment Losses In recent months, college campuses have been overrun by discussion of the current financial mess and how it will affect college life. Universities small and large have been hit, with Alex Katz 30 Apr 2009
The Failures of the Wellness Room ![The Wellness Room looks like a kindergarten classroom (Alex Katz/The Stanford Review)](/content/uploads/wellness_room_002.jpg)The Wellness Room looks like a kindergarten classroom (Alex Katz/The Alex Katz 12 Mar 2009
Anne Bayefsky: The UN and Human Rights A rarity on this campus, a staunch defender of Israel and detractor of the United Nations, spoke February 10th at an event sponsored by the ASSU Speakers Bureau and Students Alex Katz 26 Feb 2009
Islamic Awareness Speaker Series: Muqtedar Khan on Muslim American Identity and the Media ![Khan discusses the lack of direction in Muslim-American politics. (Chris Seewald/Stanford Review)](/content/uploads/KhanKatz.jpg)Khan discusses the lack of direction in Muslim-American politics. (Chris Seewald/Stanford Review) Alex Katz 26 Feb 2009
Conscription and Freedom: Irreconcilable or Inseparable? Questions of national service and the cost of freedom were debated at the January 26th Stanford Political Union (SPU) sponsored debate entitled “Serving America: Choice or Mandate?” The proposition side, Alex Katz 12 Feb 2009