House of Cowards: Stanford’s ‘Harmful Language’ Initiative Update Many institutions are said to function as a house of cards — an organization that is precariously structured. This might be the proper phrase for Stanford’s administration, but another apt Mimi St Johns 20 Dec 2022
The Review Goes to Israel Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed here are solely the views of the authors. The Hillel’s Stanford Leadership Delegation trip aimed to provide a variety of perspectives from both Walker Stewart, Mimi St Johns 30 Nov 2022
Editor’s Note: The Contrarian Ethos The philosopher G.K. Chesterton once quipped, “freedom of speech means practically, in our modern civilization, that we must only talk about unimportant things.” At the moment, freedom of speech Mimi St Johns 14 Nov 2022
COVID Cancel Culture Strikes Stanford Reading Group Last weekend, yet another Stanford department joined the chorus of campus groups unwilling to even engage with academics who dare disagree with pandemic lockdowns. The Renaissances Reading Group — part of Mimi St Johns 7 Nov 2022
What to do Before Chesa Boudin’s Recall: A Bucket List for Criminals San Francisco is the City by the Bay, one of the most beautiful settings in the United States. It’s a city where thieves flock like birds, fentanyl-laced drugs flow Mimi St Johns 4 Jun 2022
Woke Watch Woke Watch: Stanford Climate Science Polluted by "Environmental Justice" At Stanford, environmental science has its own inconvenient truth, and it’s not the one Al Gore talks about. The truth is identity politics pollutes the way Stanford teaches about Mimi St Johns 23 May 2022
Woke Watch Woke Watch: Stanford Trains Faculty to “Recognize and Address” Microaggressions What do you think of when you hear the statements: “America is the land of opportunity” and “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough?” Most people Mimi St Johns 1 May 2022
Woke Watch Woke Watch: Stanford Engineering’s DEI Bureaucracy Some careers have it all… a job in the heart of Silicon Valley, laundry machines at work, a lucrative salary, and responsibilities that are vague at best. But if you Mimi St Johns 27 Apr 2022
Mainstreaming a Murderer: Newsom and Progressive DAs Reduce Homicide Sentences Sirhan Sirhan (Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin), Charles Manson, and Leslie Van Houten (a Manson follower) were all, at one point, condemned to death for their crimes. However, all eventually Mimi St Johns 11 Mar 2022
BLM and Theranos: A Tale of Two Frauds In the past decade, there have been a startling number of individuals and organizations who went from being darlings of corporate media and elites to subjects of criminal investigations. Such Mimi St Johns 11 Feb 2022
There’s Nothing Brilliant about “Brilliant NYC": Why We Need Gifted Programs In October 2021, New York City announced that it was phasing out its gifted and talented programs for elementary schools. Critics argued that the entrance exam disproportionately favors Asian and Mimi St Johns, Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Jan 2022
Opinion Data not Guesswork: How to Handle Bias in AI As artificial intelligence becomes commonplace in industries ranging from finance to medicine to defense, a revolution is underway. Research labs in both industry and academia have devoted immense resources to Arnav Joshi, Mimi St Johns 10 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
Opinion The Divine Charade: Stanford’s Purgatory of Restrictions When one thinks of the word purgatory, it often conjures up thoughts of Dante or some situation of mild suffering, waiting for something to happen, good or bad. Me — I Mimi St Johns 30 Nov 2021
Opinion Why San Francisco needs an Austin-style Public Camping Ban In 1949, the legendary musician Hank Williams Sr. sang the words: He was some mother’s darling, he was some mother’s son Once he was fair and once he Mimi St Johns 6 Oct 2021
Opinion Instead of Defunding the Police: Modernize Them In the wake of the George Floyd protests and a nationwide conversation about the role of law enforcement, the country seems deadlocked on how, or if at all, to reform Mimi St Johns 17 Dec 2020
Opinion In 2020, Populism was the Real Winner There is a clear winner in this election: populism-- a political philosophy aimed at working-class people. While voters may have rejected Trump’s rhetoric and coronavirus policy, they did not Mimi St Johns 19 Nov 2020
Review Recommends Classes for the College Contrarian 2020-2021 Every year Stanford releases its vast course list on ExploreCourses, but gives very little guidance for students to choose which classes they should spend their 12 to 22 units on. Multiple authors 10 Sep 2020
