news Save the Tents As Family Weekend approaches, Stanford administrators use the guise of student safety to shut down the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel demonstrations in White Plaza. Julia Steinberg 8 Feb 2024
Opinion The Myth of the “Tolerant” Left At the core of the Democratic Party platform is the notion of tolerance. We see this in a range of topics: from gender-affirming surgeries to marijuana legalization. These positions exemplify Jack Komaroff 8 Feb 2024
Opinion Stanford's Equity Facade: No Need-Blind Admission for International Students From the first day of New Student Orientation, freshmen at Stanford are bombarded with an unending stream of slogans on “equity” and “inclusion” from University administration. For international students on Aadi Golchha 7 Feb 2024
Opinion Open the Doerr to Big Oil If it were offered, would you accept the Nobel Prize? That probably sounds like a stupid question. “Of course I would,” you say to yourself. But in doing so, you Antonio Alonso-Stepanov 5 Feb 2024
Opinion FMOTQ: Excellent Sheep, Poor Romantics What makes Stanford more than a mere mimetic imitation of other “elite institutions” is its irreverent and “quirky” student body. We break free from the prudish strictures of the East Thomas Adamo, Bethany Lorden 2 Feb 2024
Opinion Remember Kyiv In the spring of 2022, a scrappy Ukrainian army pulled off the greatest military upset of the twenty-first century. We would all do well to remember it. John R. Puri 25 Jan 2024
Opinion Stanford Ignores Students’ Rising Cost of Living Stanford is one of the most geographically unique campuses in America. It is the sixth largest by land area and situated in the Bay Area, one of the most expensive Jon Hartley 18 Dec 2023
Opinion Stanford’s Abysmal Bike Record Moving around campus ought to be easy, but an overpriced bike shop with shoddy service along with non-existent theft protection combine to produce countless headaches for students. Aadi Golchha 11 Dec 2023
Opinion The Death of the STEM Section You know the drill. It's Thursday, 11:30 AM. You chose this time for section because you didn’t think it was too early, but rolling out of Thomas Adamo 6 Dec 2023
Opinion Abolish the Stanford Graduate Workers Union Students voted for the Union believing it would represent their interests, but the SGWU has revealed itself to be a mere leftist advocacy group. Joe Amato 5 Dec 2023
Opinion Thinking About Rome “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” This summer, countless TikTok videos and Twitter threads featured American women asking the men in their lives this very question. To Abhi Desai 22 Nov 2023
Opinion You Are Entitled To Nothing: Deconstructing America’s Entitlement Crisis Whether it be the upcoming election or their final exams, members of my generation, Gen-Z, will always find something to complain about. But too often, these day-to-day worries distract us Jack Komaroff 21 Nov 2023
Opinion San Francisco Has Some Serious Explaining To Do The city’s last-minute cleanup prior to hosting this month’s international summit is an outright scandal—not because the effort failed, but because it succeeded. John R. Puri 20 Nov 2023
Opinion The Spirit of the Amateur On May 6th, 1954, the late runner Roger Bannister performed a feat that many world experts believed was impossible. Gliding around the track at a breakneck speed, Bannister crossed the Thomas Adamo 17 Nov 2023
Opinion Shackled Stanford’s Regulatory Demise When describing Stanford to others, I always compare it to one place: Disneyland. Just like the theme park, Stanford’s picturesque campus grounds are perfectly maintained at all times, from Dylan Rem 10 Nov 2023
Opinion Femininity, not Feminism Feminism has gone overboard. People claim cheating is feminism, women are encouraged to be the toxic one in the relationship, and we are even warned against dating male feminists. The Sophie Fujiwara 8 Nov 2023
Opinion Abundance: The Deepest Reality The basic reality of this world is abundance, not scarcity. How can this be? There is a new war in Israel, and a long war in Ukraine, both over disputed Bethany Lorden 6 Nov 2023
Opinion How Hamas Broke the Progressive Mind A scientific theory of history, which stipulates that stronger, richer nations invariably persecute their weaker, poorer counterparts, cannot apprehend the atrocities committed against Israel. John R. Puri 1 Nov 2023