Opinion The Metaverse: A Universe without Culture Facebook’s recent rebranding as Meta spurred renewed interest in the idea of a metaverse — an immersive digital world that allows for interpersonal interaction. The newly renamed company aims to Arnav Joshi 22 Jun 2022
Opinion Let’s be Frank: Life Starts at Conception On May 2nd, the Review was set to hold our weekly meeting. As usual, we had prepared a list of topics to discuss—student loan relief, the new (and now Josiah Joner 13 Jun 2022
Opinion CS182: The Bug in Stanford’s CS Department CS182 is Stanford’s flagship CS & ethics course, advertised to solve the problem of big tech by patching engineering students’ minds. But it is really a bug in their Jonah Wu 9 Jun 2022
Opinion Review Investigation: Jo Boaler, Cathy Williams, and the Woke Math Scam It’s been a busy few years for Jo Boaler, star professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Last year, the California Mathematics Framework — of which she is a Stanford Review 6 Jun 2022
Opinion When Students Silence Teachers - A Response to the COMPLIT123 Incident For thirty-five years, the Review has documented the repression of students’ heterodox ideas. Recently, however, professors who challenge progressive ideology are now being increasingly targeted. They have fewer job prospects, Jonah Wu 3 Jun 2022
Opinion Leave Abortion to the States The unprecedented leak of Justice Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization earlier this month revealed that the demise of Roe v. Wade is likely imminent. Walker Stewart 27 May 2022
Opinion Is Obama a Democrat? Former President Obama delivered a speech at Stanford last month that, on the surface, teemed with contradictions. He claimed his speech would outline how to defend democracy, but then proposed Benjamin Esposito 16 May 2022
Opinion Energy Intensive Bitcoin Mining: Can the Use of Renewables Answer Critics of Cryptocurrency? by Ricky Gill and Dr. Julia Nesheiwat Bitcoin has earned the moniker “The King of Cryptocurrencies” and become a model for other cryptocurrencies seeking competition with fiat money. To strengthen Stanford Review 12 May 2022
Opinion The Case Against the No First Use Policy In October of last year, a report surfaced claiming that the White House was considering declaring a No First Use policy (NFU), a doctrine in which America would never use Taehwa Hong 26 Jan 2022
Opinion Editor's Note: The Indispensable Review Dear Reader, In my opening Editor’s Note for Vol. LXIV one long year ago, I wrote about the values of the Stanford Review; today, looking back on the volume, Maxwell Meyer 23 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
Opinion A nation of immigrants? US immigration policy needs a fresh start The Biden administration is badly mishandling immigration. That was the only thing the U.S. electorate – otherwise split along party lines – could agree on in October national opinion polling. And Frédéric Urech 21 Dec 2021
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 An Open Letter to Melinda Byerley Dear Melinda, On November 7, you posted a Twitter thread in which you criticize “rich tech immigrants” for “trying to turn America into the caste system” and call for them Neelay Trivedi 18 Nov 2021
Opinion EXPOSURE NOTICE: Stanford students strip nude for theater gag, mask up for covid The pandemic has brought a lot of change to the Stanford campus, but you can’t say it totally killed the irreverent spirit that’s been characteristic of the Farm Maxwell Meyer 18 Nov 2021
Opinion On Disagreement at Stanford I took an astrophysics class last winter and hated it. It wasn’t that the teacher was poor or that my peers in the class were rude or dislikeable, I Leo Spunt 12 Nov 2021
Opinion Let’s Do Away With Required Attendance It’s 9:30 in the morning. I woke up early for this lecture. I have been taking notes on autopilot but the information is going in one ear and Ari Webb 11 Nov 2021
