Q&A with Richard Engel, 124th Commencement Speaker Rebecca Aydin June 9, 2015 1 Comment Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent of NBC News, will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2015. Engel graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a B.A. in International Relations. He began... Read More »
Senator Dianne Feinstein ’55 talks surveillance and security Sam Premutico May 29, 2015 6 Comments U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein ’55 spoke on May 28 at CEMEX Auditorium about American surveillance laws and national security. The talk was sponsored by six Stanford organizations, including the... Read More »
A promising comedy career Mina Shah May 5, 2015 0 Comments Obama has revolutionized presidential outreach. He is the first president to make so many active efforts to connect to young voters through different platforms. One of his most effective methods of... Read More »
A debate on the implications of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act Ben Kaufman and Wyatt Smitherman March 30, 2015 3 Comments Ben Kaufman '17 and Wyatt Smitherman '16 debate what the Religious Freedom Restoration Act will mean for Indiana. Kaufman argues that the law will only allow for minority discrimination while... Read More »
The heart of darkness: The encryption rift between tech companies and law enforcement Claire Zabel and Joseph Zabel February 19, 2015 7 Comments A dangerous rift is forming between what technology enables and what law enforcement needs. Thus, we must reconcile our protective instincts towards our personal data with our protective instincts... Read More »
On helping our fellow human Mina Shah February 17, 2015 0 Comments Dogmatic nationalism might be a good thing in some situations, but when it privileges the marginal economic security of a nation over the lives of other people, we ought to reexamine our priorities. Read More »
The legacy of Daniel Pearl AZ Gordon February 8, 2015 4 Comments Students are less willing to listen to the opinions that irk us, and when we do, we respond by drowning them out in self-righteous indignation. What might Pearl have written, I wonder, in the wake of... Read More »
The danger of co-opting Kobani Mina Shah February 3, 2015 3 Comments If we want to actually eventually defeat ISIS, it’s more useful to see the battle at Kobani for what it actually is: a small win at a huge cost. To keep moving forward, we need to latch on to bigger... Read More »