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
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
