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
Opinion How to be a Conservative at Stanford After over a year of being nearly barren, Stanford’s campus burst back to life last month. For nearly half of Stanford undergraduates, this quarter is their first spent on Walker Stewart 2 Nov 2021
Opinion The Hollowing Out of Stanford Classics A few years back, the editors of the Review called for the restoration of Stanford’s old Western Civilization requirement. The core, which introduced students to the literary, artistic, and Robin Zhang 20 Oct 2021
Opinion Follow the Science: Stanford’s Best COVID-19 Warnings As the Review has previously covered in detail, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out an incredible amount of stupidity on the Stanford campus. Masks on bicycles, twice-weekly testing for vaccinated Stanford Review 19 Oct 2021
Opinion Stanford Professors Respond to the Review on DOJ's China Initiative We are two of the Stanford faculty who initiated the letter to the Attorney General advocating the termination of the Department of Justice’s “China Initiative” – a letter that was Steven Kivelson and Peter Michelson 18 Oct 2021
Opinion Why San Francisco needs an Austin-style Public Camping Ban In 1949, the legendary musician Hank Williams Sr. sang the words: He was some mother’s darling, he was some mother’s son Once he was fair and once he Mimi St Johns 6 Oct 2021
Opinion Now more than ever, Stanford needs to adopt the Chicago Statement Every time something jarring occurs, it seems as though the Stanford community tests its fundamental limits all over again. It happened again in the final week of August, when Chaze Nicholas Welch 5 Oct 2021
Opinion Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, Maxwell Meyer 29 Sep 2021
Opinion Nothing to See Here: Stanford Professors call for DOJ to stop looking for Chinese spies in academia. Last week, a group of nearly 200 Stanford faculty wrote a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for him to end the Department of Justice’s “China Initiative. Stanford Review 23 Sep 2021
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
