Gay Marriage Ruling Raises Constitutional Questions In 2000, Californians voted on Proposition 22, which sought to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The measure was passed, with 61.4 percent in favor. Recently, seck 10 Jun 2008
The Resurrection of Russia Many Western journalists and politicians loathe Russian President Vladimir Putin for offending liberal sensibilities on liberty and democracy. But even as Putin steps down after his term expires on May seck 21 Apr 2008
Violence in Tibet is Unacceptable Imagine the following sequence of events: A large group of white separatists, tired of living side by side with people of color in multiracial America, decides to carve out a seck 3 Apr 2008
How Clinton-Obama Might Win In November Given recent events, John McCain is the likely Republican nominee. But looking ahead, the Electoral College situation looks difficult for the GOP in general and a McCain candidacy in particular. seck 27 Feb 2008
Interview with Ben Stein After the January 27 debate on atheism vs. theism, The Stanford Review had the opportunity to interview debate host Ben Stein. The multi-talented Stein has held successful careers in journalism, seck 7 Feb 2008
Should America Employ Mercenaries? You Bet! On January 16, the New York Times reported that Justice Department officials have informed Congress of “serious legal difficulties” in prosecuting Blackwater security guards involved in a September shooting that seck 7 Feb 2008
Presidential Candidates and the Sleep Deficit Earlier this year, in an article titled “Fatigue Factor Gives Equal Time to Candidates,” The New York Times reported that almost all of America’s major presidential candidates are suffering seck 27 Jan 2008
Buchanan on Foreign Policy Last year, Burma’s military junta brutally suppressed a series of peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning thousands and killing scores, perhaps hundreds, of innocent people. In response, most of Burma’s Asian seck 17 Jan 2008
Why Not Rationalize Religion? On November 27, 2007, Fellowship in Christ at Stanford (FICS) organized a debate titled “Does God Exist?” between atheist philosopher David Fitzgerald and Christian apologist Chang Yuon. The event was seck 6 Dec 2007
China and India In late September, Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel spoke at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He said: “I believe that growth in the developing world will offset slowing seck 8 Nov 2007
Why China Hates the Dalai Lama Despite Chinese protests, President Bush presented the Dalai Lama with a Congressional Gold Medal on October 17. During the award ceremony, Bush praised the Dalai Lama as a “shepherd of seck 8 Nov 2007
Keep Stanford Small On October 17, 2007, the Stanford Report revealed that President Hennessy was appointing a task force to “explore the idea of increasing the size of the freshman class—and, as seck 8 Nov 2007
Rumsfeld Issue Raises Debate over the Definition of Tolerance The appointment of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution has faced enormous opposition on the Stanford campus. As of October 6, an seck 14 Oct 2007
News Analysis: Smoking in Stanford Stanford introduced two anti-smoking policies during the summer holidays, both effective as of September 1. First, the School of Medicine has banned outdoor smoking. Second, the Stanford Benefits and the seck 27 Sep 2007
A Return to Isolationism Leading Republicans and Democrats generally agree that America should have an interventionist foreign policy, although they differ on the details. The post-Iraq mood of the American people, however, hints at seck 7 Jun 2007
Arguing For and Against Genetic Engineering Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel recently spoke at Stanford on the subject of his new book, The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. He focused on the seck 7 Jun 2007
On Illegal Students and Illegal Immigrants “IMPOSTER CAUGHT,” rang the Stanford Daily headlines. When it was discovered that a young woman, Azia Kim, had managed to falsely pass herself off as a Stanford freshman for eight seck 7 Jun 2007
All or Nothing The tragic Virginia Tech massacre has sparked a national debate over gun control. Although some have suggested that gunman Cho Seung-Hui’s mental problems may have been a primary cause seck 10 May 2007