Opinion A Guide to the Tables of Coho Once one has made the choice to purchase a drink at CoHo, having resolved in the rightful way the irreducible question of which Stanford café to visit, the problem remains Nick Burns 7 Jun 2018
Opinion Tea-Drinking Matters Though I am hesitant to trespass on ground already covered [http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm] so authoritatively by the inimitable George Orwell, during the course of a Nick Burns 30 Apr 2018
Stanford Politics Has Waged Op-Ed War Against The Stanford Daily. Who's Right? Stanford Politics and the Daily are currently locked in an op-ed war which began when Stanford Politics accused [https://stanfordpolitics.org/2018/04/09/daily-need-print-daily/] the Daily of running low-quality Nick Burns 17 Apr 2018
Stanford Study Spots, Reviewed East Wing Carrels, Green Library Shoddily constructed, graffiti-scarred, and all too reminiscent of the cubicles that many of us will woefully inhabit for some outsized portion of our adult lives, Nick Burns 8 Apr 2018
Why I Went to the Gun Protest, and Why We Should Let High Schoolers Do The Same At Stanford, our role is that of students and, generally speaking, we should be students first. We have been given the precious opportunity to learn in this place, and in Nick Burns 15 Mar 2018
If The Humanities Want More Respect, They Need to Get Tougher Techie–fuzzy arguments at Stanford often take the form of arguments over who has more work. “This is actually so hard” reads a post on the Stanford Memes for Edgy Nick Burns 13 Feb 2018
In Defense of CoHo The student body of Stanford University is riven by a discord as unspoken as it is deep and rancorous. What divides us, you ask? Not the tiresome, performative quarrel between Nick Burns 6 Feb 2018
In Defense of Our Principles and Professors: A Dissent from the Review Editorial Board By calling for the resignation of a tenured professor, the writers of last week’s piece [https://stanfordreview.org/antifa-thugs-find-a-champion-and-leader-in-stanford-professor-3/] on David Palumbo-Liu set a dangerous precedent for campus discourse. Nick Burns 23 Jan 2018
In Defense of Fake News Fake news is as old as America itself. History will demonstrate that this phenomenon poses no great threat to journalism, or truth in society. It is nothing more than a Nick Burns 16 Jan 2018
Why Do You Really Study Computer Science? The last thing Stanford needs is more computer science majors. In 2008–9, there were 695 undergraduates majoring in fields in the School of Engineering and 2,511 in the Nick Burns 17 Oct 2017
Effective Self-Justification: Charity and the Crisis of Political Service at Stanford -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A recent article [http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/21/why-earning-to-give-is-a-great-option-for-stanford-graduates-looking-to-do-good/] in the Stanford Daily extolled the virtues of the effective altruism movement for Stanford students who wish to Nick Burns 16 May 2017
Against a Sanctuary Campus: Stanford is a University, Not the Resistance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On February 17, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne refused [http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/02/17/tessier-lavigne-refuses-sanctuary-campus-label-pledges-support-for-undocumented-community/] to officially label Stanford a “sanctuary campus” for undocumented students. Depending on who Nick Burns 22 Feb 2017
This Is Not The America We Imagined History and Politics at Stanford in Trump’s Wake One of the first articles [http://www.theonion.com/article/area-liberal-no-longer-recognizes-fanciful-wildly--54670] published by The Onion in the wake of the presidential Nick Burns 17 Nov 2016
The Single Tradition: A Multicultural Argument for Western Civilization The Western tradition is no better than any other, but it serves as a starting point. Stanford students should sign the Western Civilization petition to broaden discussion on the humanities. Nick Burns 4 Mar 2016