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The Conservative Case for a Liberal Education 15 Jun 2013 | 05:58 am
Strengthening student exposure to the humanities will increase an already-high return on the investment of a Stanford education. Former U.S. Secretary of Education under President Reagan, William Benn...
Why I Studied Classics 15 Jun 2013 | 05:53 am
Recently I found myself holding a conversation about Stanford and life in general over dinner with a friend. Where the conversation took a turn for the worse was when he started discussing how much be...
Build and Bet 15 Jun 2013 | 05:50 am
Recently I found myself at dinner with one of the founders of the Review, and the discussion veered among other things, to the first principles of worldviews. Determinism and probabilistic thinking be...
A Story About Axe and Palm, Government, and Information 15 Jun 2013 | 05:46 am
Members of the Stanford community are filled with valuable knowledge. We have our physicists, our engineers, our historians. Needless to say, all of the academic disciplines at Stanford are valuable i...
Women’s Triathlon—An Emerging NCAA Sport 15 Jun 2013 | 04:04 am
The Stanford Triathlon club team swam, biked, and ran to win a 10th place overall finish at USA Triathlon (USAT) Collegiate Nationals in Tempe, Arizona in mid-April while the men’s team took 4th place...
Say NO to Divestment from Fossil Fuels 28 May 2013 | 12:04 pm
Tomorrow, the ASSU Undergraduate Senate plans to vote on a revised resolution that presses Stanford to divest from fossil fuel companies. Since only 7% of Stanford’s endowment is in “Natural Resources...
Student Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage 28 May 2013 | 01:10 am
In light of the Supreme Court’s recent oral arguments over the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8, The Stanford Review interviewed students from three different stud...
Clarifying the Implications of the Reinhart-Rogoff Excel Error 27 May 2013 | 11:24 am
Economics professor Michael Boskin discusses the real implications of the Reinhart-Rogoff Excel error. Last month, a famous academic paper produced by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth ...
Why Liberals Need to Reconsider Gun Control in Light of Race 23 May 2013 | 08:39 am
What do we think about when we think about guns? For most Stanford students, a few simple words probably spring to mind. Words that denote towns or schools, but connote terrifying acts of mass violenc...
Gosnell and the Under-appreciation of Motherhood 23 May 2013 | 08:32 am
The setting: A “clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely. Furniture and blankets…stained with blood. Instruments…not properly sterilized. ...
