Opinion Repeal the Conformity Tax Cancel culture is a potent and dangerous force that harms individuals who share contrarian ideas. But while cancellation punishes what has already been said or done, self-censorship preemptively punishes what Neelay Trivedi 28 Oct 2020
Opinion Inside Stanford's Woke New Student Orientation Stanford’s New Student Orientation is an initiation rather than an orientation: a revival-meeting designed to signal to the incoming student activists that Stanford sees them, hears them, and would Stanford Review 27 Oct 2020
Opinion Stand Up For France and Free Expression! Last Friday in Paris, a high school history teacher named Samuel Paty was murdered and decapitated on the street by an Islamist terrorist. During a lecture the previous week, the Maxwell Meyer 24 Oct 2020
Opinion All of California’s Exes are Moving to Texas: The California Exodus Some say that a sign at Idaho’s western border reads, “Welcome to Idaho! If liberalism worked, you’d still be in California.” The sign may not be real, but Alexis Levit 23 Oct 2020
Opinion Liberal Education in Crisis: Stanford's Latest Attempt to Save It For the first time in Stanford’s history, freshmen are taking the class, “Why College?”. The optional course, Think70, forms the first module of the newly ratified Civil, Liberal, and Jonah Wu 19 Oct 2020
Opinion China, Big Tech, and Big Government: An Interview with Jeffrey Miron On the most important public policy issues facing the United States, Republicans and Democrats are in vehement disagreement. However, both parties agree on a crucial point: that government intervention is Stanford Review 16 Oct 2020
Opinion SCR: Ibram Kendi's Racism and Stanford's Hypocrisy Today, October 14th, Stanford University sponsored an event featuring How to be an Anti-Racist author Ibram Kendi, to discuss the concept of “anti-racism.” In doing so, Stanford gave a platform Stanford College Republicans 14 Oct 2020
Opinion Should We Defund the Stanford Daily? On October 2nd, the Editorial Board of the Stanford Daily announced that their publication is racist and anti-Black. "As we begin the new session of the Stanford Daily Editorial Board, Stanford Review 13 Oct 2020
Opinion Hands Off Hoover! Over a hundred Stanford faculty recently signed an open letter titled “COVID-19 and the Hoover Institution: Time for a Reappraisal.” The letter, which you can read in its entirety here, Multiple authors 26 Sep 2020
Opinion The War on Fire Of the great lessons from the last 50 years of U.S. history, we should have learned by now that declaring war against an abstract noun is a terrible idea. Maxwell Meyer 24 Sep 2020
Opinion The Start of the Stanford Century In the 20th century, the basic unit of American foreign policy was the Harvard-educated missionary diplomat, who ventured the world spreading Veritas and the virtues of Western liberalism. But the Neelay Trivedi 14 Sep 2020
Opinion Justice As Unfairness: Against the Attack on Stanford Police Since time immemorial, Stanford student activists have styled themselves as champions of the powerless. This past March saw workers’ rights as the chosen cause. Stanford Students for Workers’ Rights successfully Benjamin Esposito 2 Jul 2020
Opinion No Longer Neutral: Big Tech Gains from America’s Losses The turmoil of recent months, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the recent protests and riots, have revealed many big tech companies as political actors with vast, unchecked powers of censorship, Nicola Buskirk 30 Jun 2020
Opinion SCR: Stanford Dean Mona Hicks Owes Everyone an Apology In a June 1st email to the Stanford community regarding the recent unrest, Dean of Students Mona Hicks concluded by quoting a “loving refrain” from domestic terrorist Assata Shakur. Assata Stanford College Republicans 26 Jun 2020
Opinion Recognize Juneteenth The United States currently has ten Federal holidays. Recent events have brought the prospect of an eleventh into the national conversation: Juneteenth. Though Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two Maxwell Meyer 19 Jun 2020
Opinion Violence is in Vogue Again: Why Liberals Should Not Condone the Riots The worst of a violent uprising – which saw urban America engulfed in flames earlier this month – has finally come under control. The most recent protests in response to police brutality Yasmin Samrai 17 Jun 2020
Opinion Stanford Must Reopen in the Fall, and Here’s How In the 129-year history of the Leland Stanford Junior University, it has been twice destroyed by major earthquakes; its students have fought and died in the bloodiest wars of the Nicola Buskirk 2 Jun 2020
Opinion Against Class Action Lawsuits: Treat Stanford Like a University, Not a Business By the end of April, and just over a month after the COVID-19 pandemic compelled most American universities to close their campuses, college students across the country had filed more Nikita Bogdanov 1 Jun 2020
