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
Opinion Editor's Note: The Purpose of a Pluralist When he founded the magazine National Review in 1955, William F. Buckley, Jr. said that the purpose of a conservative is to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time Maxwell Meyer 1 Feb 2021
Opinion Editor's Note: The Twilight of Stanford Stanford is known for a certain unique ethos that is dying, through a combination of not only carelessness but concerted effort on the part of University administrators. Stanford’s reputation, Annika Nordquist 28 Jan 2021
Opinion Why They Need Us: the Abraham Accords and Middle Eastern Innovation On September 15th, representatives of the United States, Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, signed the Abraham Accords at the White House. As part of the Accords, the UAE Ryan Samadi 21 Dec 2020
Opinion Instead of Defunding the Police: Modernize Them In the wake of the George Floyd protests and a nationwide conversation about the role of law enforcement, the country seems deadlocked on how, or if at all, to reform Mimi St Johns 17 Dec 2020
Opinion Light Amid Darkness: Jewish Wisdom for the Holiday Season David Ben-gurion said that “For a Jew to be a realist, he has to believe in miracles.” Chanukah epitomises these words by commemorating genuine events that were nothing short of Joshua Jankelow 13 Dec 2020
Opinion What They Didn't Say— Education Elections are defined by the candidates, what they say, and the issues they focus on. COVID. The economy. Court packing (phew). Healthcare. But the issues the candidates don’t focus Walker Stewart 8 Dec 2020
Opinion The Revolt of the Suburbanities The results of the 2020 election challenge both parties’ identities. Republicans are split over the GOP’s future, unsure of whether to embrace a vision of conservatism that focuses on Benjamin Esposito 6 Dec 2020
Opinion Stop Attacking the Supreme Court The Supreme Court is under attack. In the past few years, politicians and ideological media have repeatedly polarized the Supreme Court. Criticism of Supreme Court nominees has moved from well-founded Ruei-Hung Alex Lee 2 Dec 2020
Opinion At UChicago, a Woke Inquisition—and a Warning On a college campus, there are some moments when liberal reality seems more like conservative satire, as if screenwriters were scripting the lines of some students just to humor the Maxwell Meyer 1 Dec 2020
Opinion The American Dream is Still Alive. Trust me, I’m a Foreigner. I can confidently say that the most comforting sight I have seen this year was the Star-Spangled Banner at the American Embassy in South Africa. Indeed, every time I see Joshua Jankelow 26 Nov 2020
Opinion Get Up or Get Out of the Way: The Future of the GOP Republicans: even when they win, they lose. Despite successes in Presidential and Congressional elections, and even in the Supreme Court, Republicans have continually lost institutional and cultural power. Then Trump Nicola Buskirk 25 Nov 2020
