Anti-Semitism and the Outrage Olympics

I have four reactions to the recent anti-Semitism fracas set off by the Stanford Review’s report on the Students of Color Coalition’s interview of…

10 years ago

The Democrats Have No Bench

here are over twenty potential candidates in the Republican presidential field.  While this might make the nomination process chaotic, it…

10 years ago

“Let Prices Do The Work”: Bruce Cain on the California Drought

Bruce Cain is a professor of Political Science and the Spence and Cleone Eccles Family Director of the Bill Lane…

10 years ago

The Tyranny of the Almond

ach citizen of our nation has their own preferred locus of malevolence on which to blame the ills of the…

10 years ago

Evaluating the Iran Nuclear Deal

Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, as well as a senior fellow…

10 years ago

California’s Drought: A Historical Perspective

David M. Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian. A founding co-director of the Bill Lane Center for the American…

10 years ago

Four Takeaways From Stanford’s Surprising New Sexual Assault Policy

ast Spring, Provost John Etchmendy announced the creation of a task force to revise Stanford’s sexual assault policies. The task…

10 years ago

Twitter Terrorism

is a well-known argument that the current dismal state of the Middle East is at least partly a product of…

10 years ago

Israel as Culture War

he Wikipedia page on “culture war” currently lists a few dozen well-known battleground issues in American politics: abortion, global warming, drug legalization,…

10 years ago

What to Make of Ranked States

January, POLITICO released its second annual “state of the states of the union,” which ranks the fifty states and the District…

10 years ago