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
Opinion What are the Priorities of Conservatism? Conservatives distinguish themselves on the campaign trail by championing ‘family values.’ But do conservative politicians value the family? Simply look at the intra-conservative debate over Senator Mitt Romney’s child Benjamin Esposito 1 Mar 2021
Opinion Science is about Evidence, not Consensus On December 8, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the country’s strictest statewide lockdown, citing experts who warned the pandemic would grow out of control if urgent measures were Neelay Trivedi 25 Feb 2021
Opinion Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson: On Free Speech at Stanford What is the purpose of academic freedom? Is it to allow all kinds of ideas to be expressed and explored, protecting even speech that people in the past considered heretical— Scott Atlas, Niall Ferguson, and Victor Davis Hanson 23 Feb 2021
Opinion Review Editorial Board: ASSU Exec Vianna Vo Should Resign Against the Students of Stanford University: that’s the rebranded name of the ASSU and its accidental executive, Vianna Vo. Last Friday, Vo sent a memo to Vice Provost for Stanford Review 16 Feb 2021
Opinion A Triumphant Day in the Senate Yesterday evening, the Stanford Faculty Senate met and debated a resolution which sought to create a faculty committee to study the University’s relationship with the Hoover Institution. The faculty Stanford Review 12 Feb 2021
Opinion Checking in on Chesa Boudin The clocks are striking thirteen in San Francisco. Okay, in the Big-Brother-totalitarian-dystopia sense, the City of San Francisco cannot yet be called Orwellian. But I don’t think it’s Maxwell Meyer 8 Feb 2021
Opinion Self-care Culture is Making Us Fragile Self-care is more than just face masks and bubble baths. It’s a revolution – or so its devotees will tell you. It’s a lifestyle, a movement, a form of Lucy Kross Wallace 5 Feb 2021
Opinion A Case for Fluency on China Spending many childhood summers in Hong Kong, I always heard the same complaint about Americans: we are clueless about Chinese history and culture, but presumptuously confident about the superiority of Jonah Wu 3 Feb 2021
