Opinion Editor's Note: The Indispensable Review Dear Reader, In my opening Editor’s Note for Vol. LXIV one long year ago, I wrote about the values of the Stanford Review; today, looking back on the volume, Maxwell Meyer 23 Jan 2022
Breaking News Stanford CS Goes Woke: department slams Rittenhouse, praises Ibram Kendi, and promotes terrorist autobiography! The Department of Computer Science is the crown jewel of Stanford. It minted trillions in Silicon Valley wealth, engineered large parts of the internet, and continues to be a powerhouse Mimi St Johns, Maxwell Meyer 7 Dec 2021
Breaking News Race Panic! Stanford investigates “cords with loops that may represent nooses” Two Stanford administrators, Dean of Students Mona Hicks and Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community Patrick Dunkley, sent a panicked email to students and faculty Monday night. They Maxwell Meyer 29 Nov 2021
Opinion EXPOSURE NOTICE: Stanford students strip nude for theater gag, mask up for covid The pandemic has brought a lot of change to the Stanford campus, but you can’t say it totally killed the irreverent spirit that’s been characteristic of the Farm Maxwell Meyer 18 Nov 2021
Opinion Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, Maxwell Meyer 29 Sep 2021
Opinion Setting the Record Straight on Gaza Last week, a post from an incoming Stanford freshman named Yousef AbuHashem went viral on Instagram. Yousef lives in the Gaza Strip, which was targeted this month by Israeli airstrikes Maxwell Meyer 28 May 2021
Opinion When Conservatives Support Cancel Culture On Monday, the Stanford College Republicans (SCR) posted about my friend Emily, a former Stanford student, on their Facebook page. Emily is a Jewish American and strong critic of Israel, Maxwell Meyer 19 May 2021
Editor's Note: Consider Supporting the Review Dear Reader, 2020 and 2021 have been two chaotic years to be a college student, on campus and online. But we have risen to the challenge, and today I am Maxwell Meyer 3 May 2021
Opinion A Harry Potter-themed Stanford dorm panics over “transphobic, anti-semitic, and racist” J.K. Rowling When I moved back to Stanford last week for the first time in over a year, I grinned almost childishly when I saw the Hufflepuff name-tag on my door. For Maxwell Meyer 6 Apr 2021
Recall Gavin Newsom! In 2018, Californians elected Gavin Newsom as Governor with over 60% of the vote. It was the largest margin in any California gubernatorial race since Earl Warren was elected in Alexis Levit, Maxwell Meyer 8 Mar 2021
Opinion Checking in on Chesa Boudin The clocks are striking thirteen in San Francisco. Okay, in the Big-Brother-totalitarian-dystopia sense, the City of San Francisco cannot yet be called Orwellian. But I don’t think it’s Maxwell Meyer 8 Feb 2021
Opinion Editor's Note: The Purpose of a Pluralist When he founded the magazine National Review in 1955, William F. Buckley, Jr. said that the purpose of a conservative is to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time Maxwell Meyer 1 Feb 2021
Opinion At UChicago, a Woke Inquisition—and a Warning On a college campus, there are some moments when liberal reality seems more like conservative satire, as if screenwriters were scripting the lines of some students just to humor the Maxwell Meyer 1 Dec 2020
Opinion Stand Up For France and Free Expression! Last Friday in Paris, a high school history teacher named Samuel Paty was murdered and decapitated on the street by an Islamist terrorist. During a lecture the previous week, the Maxwell Meyer 24 Oct 2020
Opinion Hands Off Hoover! Over a hundred Stanford faculty recently signed an open letter titled “COVID-19 and the Hoover Institution: Time for a Reappraisal.” The letter, which you can read in its entirety here, Multiple authors 26 Sep 2020
Opinion The War on Fire Of the great lessons from the last 50 years of U.S. history, we should have learned by now that declaring war against an abstract noun is a terrible idea. Maxwell Meyer 24 Sep 2020
Opinion Recognize Juneteenth The United States currently has ten Federal holidays. Recent events have brought the prospect of an eleventh into the national conversation: Juneteenth. Though Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two Maxwell Meyer 19 Jun 2020
Breaking News BREAKING: Stanford Student Publishes Anonymous, Unverified Allegations Forum on Instagram A new Instagram account called @namingcreeps, created by a Stanford undergraduate on Tuesday invited Stanford students to anonymously name “creeps” on campus using a Google form. The first post on Multiple authors 30 Apr 2020
