Anti-Semitism and the Outrage Olympics

11 years ago

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…

The Democrats Have No Bench

11 years ago

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

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

11 years ago

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

The Tyranny of the Almond

11 years ago

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

Evaluating the Iran Nuclear Deal

11 years ago

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

California’s Drought: A Historical Perspective

11 years ago

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

Four Takeaways From Stanford’s Surprising New Sexual Assault Policy

11 years ago

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

Twitter Terrorism

11 years ago

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

Israel as Culture War

11 years ago

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

What to Make of Ranked States

11 years ago

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