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
Satire Amid Pandemic, Stanford Seizes Historic Opportunity to Clean Co-ops In a shocking email to the Stanford community, Vice Provost for Students Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole announced today that Stanford’s seven cooperative houses (‘co-ops’) were cleaned for the first time Maxwell Meyer 17 Apr 2020
Opinion Chesa Boudin: San Francisco’s Lawless Revolutionary Last month San Francisco got a new District Attorney, Chesa Boudin. The City-by-the-Bay’s new top prosecutor has made it his signature “policy” (if you can call it that) to Maxwell Meyer 17 Feb 2020
Satire Stanford Versus Democrat Candidates of Color: A Shocking Pattern In the last month, two Stanford alumni and Democrat candidates for President suspended their campaigns: U.S. Senator Cory Booker ‘91 and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro Maxwell Meyer 10 Feb 2020
Opinion SSS Embraces Anti-Science Bunk for “Sustainability” This Thursday, the esteemed Students for a Sustainable Stanford (SSS) will hold its annual Schneider Memorial Lecture. The guest is Dr. Vandana Shiva, whom SSS describes unironically as an “Author, Maxwell Meyer 21 Jan 2020
Opinion Complicit In America: SLAP says Palantir Has to Go! This just in: student activists have again sounded the alarm against Stanford, this time for alleged “complicity in State Violence.” The allegation comes from SLAP — Students for the Liberation of Maxwell Meyer 22 Nov 2019
Opinion The Campus Cancellers Come for Jane Stanford Jane Stanford was a woman of the 19th century and not a 21st century progressive gender activist. For that, she can never be forgiven. Today, Stanford commemorates the renaming of Maxwell Meyer 14 Nov 2019
Opinion The SCoPE Charade Crumbles When I published a criticism of campus housing activists in The Review two weeks ago, I did not know that in four short days, my warnings about SCoPE 2124 and Maxwell Meyer 12 Nov 2019
Opinion SCoPE: Students Co-opted by Property-owning Elders Last Tuesday, Santa Clara County held its final public hearing to consider Stanford’s 2018 application for a General Use Permit (GUP), which would govern University expansion through 2035. The Maxwell Meyer 28 Oct 2019
