Stanford Politics Magazine: May 2019

Editor’s Note ur second magazine of the academic year comes to you a bit later than expected, but we hope…

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100 Years of Hoover: A History of Stanford’s Decades-Long Debate over the Hoover Institution

“When I was a kid growing up on campus,” Stanford Provost Persis Drell recalls, “my memory of Hoover in 1971…

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Asian-America’s Diversity Problem

In 1982, Detroit’s automobile industry had begun to feel the effects of increased globalization. Imports of Japanese automobiles posed a…

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Thinking Beyond ‘The Farm’: Rural Engagement and Stanford Admission

Aside from prevailing as one of the few universities to have an official glossary for campus lingo (just for those…

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Slovakia’s Election Counters A Dimming Central European Mood

Zuzana Čaputová was elected as the fifth President of Slovakia on Saturday, March 30, and as the first woman elected…

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Testing the Peace: How Brexit Affects the Possibility, and Danger, of Irish Unification

During the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland underwent a period of ethno-nationalist conflict known as The Troubles. Violence continually erupted…

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Stanford Politics Magazine: December 2018

Editor’s Note  little under a year and a half ago, we at Stanford Politics released our first magazine. The day…

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Leaving Religion at Home: Engaging Religious Thought and Action in American Society

At an Oxford University conference on human dignity held earlier this year, Dr. Paul Fiddes, a professor of systematic theology,…

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“If I [were] Stanford, I would be threatened by us”: How SCoPE 2035 became the most powerful activist group on campus

t’s a Saturday at Terman Fountain, and the brothers of Delta Tau Delta are pregaming the Stanford football game. Red…

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Second Chances: The Enduring Empathy of Prop 47

In July 2013, my house was burglarized. The event left me with recurring nightmares and my family with a long…

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