Opinion Toward a New ESG The modern financial ESG movement is changing the face of investment in the United States. The vague acronym stands for “Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance”, and is said to specify Jonah Wu 16 Jun 2021
Opinion The Big Problem with Big Tech The consumer welfare standard was a radical idea when it was first proposed by Judge Robert Bork in the 1970s. Beforehand, when reviewing mergers and acquisitions under antitrust law, judges Robin Zhang 2 Jun 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 To the Daily: Lost in Translation is not a racist movie Last week, the Stanford Daily published a movie review that criticizes the 2003 film Lost in Translation for “reinforcing a racist worldview” and “contributing to systemic racism.” Lost in Translation, Neelay Trivedi 25 May 2021
Opinion Stanford Should Disclose The Names of Chinese Donors American universities are bad at disclosing foreign funding from China, and Stanford is no exception. The University has received over $64 million from anonymous Chinese donors since 2010. Only a Neelay Trivedi 20 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
Opinion How Did Everything Get So Liberal? In his Substack essay “Why is Everything Liberal?” Richard Hanania explains why liberals are overrepresented in our society’s institutions, from academia, to the media, and now corporations. Through analyzing Robin Zhang 17 May 2021
Opinion Anti-Vax University? Stanford says fully-vaccinated students must be tested for COVID-19 twice a week! Since March 2020, all students, faculty, and staff at Stanford have had to undergo regular COVID-19 testing: undergraduate and graduate students twice a week, and faculty whenever they visit campus. Stanford Review 12 May 2021
Opinion The Danger of the "Freedom Thesis" Over the past couple decades, conservatives have increasingly grounded their appeals to individuals on the basis of preserving constitutional freedoms. Such a conservatism is intuitively appealing, as it allows conservatives Jonah Wu 10 May 2021
Opinion The Ethics and Economics of Food Waste at Stanford “What’s the ethical thing to do?” asked a friend, gathering up three containers of half-eaten food after we ate lunch on Wilbur Field. “Put it in the fridge for Katherine Silk 4 May 2021
Opinion SCR: ASSU Candidate Crooks' Racist Statements are Disqualifying Earlier this week, the Stanford College Republicans exposed ASSU candidate Gabby Crooks for making numerous racist statements over the course of the past year. These statements are beyond troubling and Stanford College Republicans 29 Apr 2021
Opinion The GOP-Business Breakup Writing in the years following World War I, Rudyard Kipling lamented Europe blindly accepting the ideologies of the day, as its nations failed to realize their principles would lead to Benjamin Esposito 27 Apr 2021
Opinion Freshmen Should Not be ASSU Senators In next month’s Stanford ASSU election, students will vote on a bill called “The Freshman Senators Act,” which proposes allowing freshmen to serve as ASSU Senators. It’s a Neelay Trivedi 16 Apr 2021
Opinion The Moral Argument Against Lockdowns In his seminal work, The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater remarks upon the importance of choice -- the ability to make tradeoffs -- in preserving the freedom and unique Arnav Joshi 8 Apr 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
Opinion Every Child Left Behind: How California is Failing Students During The Pandemic California’s leaders have been busy talking up the effects of the pandemic on minority and underserved communities. But ironically, they refuse to address the most important engine of reducing Neelay Trivedi 10 Mar 2021
Opinion Scott Atlas: The Last Word Editor's Note: Scott W. Atlas, MD, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, served from August through November 2020 as Special Adviser to the President and was a member of Dr. Scott Atlas 7 Mar 2021
Opinion Why Stanford Should Keep the SAT Stanford recently announced that the SAT will not be required for applicants for the Class of 2026. The University has framed this policy, which was already in place for the Quinn Barry 3 Mar 2021
