The Stanford Review

4 weeks ago | stanfordreview.org | Julia Steinberg |Abhi Desai

Stanford has changed dramatically since my freshman fall. Then, back in 2021, students donned masks to go to class (and the dining halls). Students, recovering from lockdowns, were re-integrating into and rebuilding social life on campus. Covid restrictions forced the Review to hold its meetings outdoors. With the resumption of “normal life” came renewed social pressures—and the desire to fit into the new social order. Self-censorship reigned supreme.

1 month ago | stanfordreview.org | Julia Steinberg

I received my Stanford acceptance letter at home, about two weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic. Months later, I chose to defer my acceptance owing to the uncertainty of the pandemic. As I graduate this June alongside the 2,000 or so seniors that also matriculated in the fall of 2021, I am afraid that the absurdity of the actions Stanford took under COVID will be forgotten.

2 months ago | stanfordreview.org | Julia Steinberg |Abhi Desai

After this fall’s historic red wave, I expected to see a reaction similar to the 2016 presidential election. I was expecting mass protests, mass absentia from classes, sit-ins, and lively political debate on campus. That did not happen. What followed seemed to me to be utter resignation and capitulation. Though my 10:30am class on Wednesday, November 6 counted more than a few absences, the political mood on campus was, and continues to be, defeat, not aggravation.

2 months ago | stanfordreview.org | Aditya Gupta |Dylan Rem

You’d expect the Mafia to be debanked, but when even members of the PayPal Mafia are debanked on a whim, it’s time to sound the alarm. In 2019, Roelof Botha—Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital and an early PayPal executive—found himself unexpectedly “debanked” by the Bank of America, a bank that holds $2.55 trillion in assets. With no explanation provided and no clear route to appeal, he was left bewildered and frustrated.

Jan 24, 2025 | stanfordreview.org | Dylan Rem

Jaguar, the British automotive icon featured alongside Aston Martin as the car of choice for James Bond, has recently garnered criticism for a bizarre ad with the tagline “Copy Nothing.” The ad attracted merciless ridicule for its bizarre use of models in garish colors, and for making no reference to actual automobiles, leading critics to term it as “woke.” While the fallout from the brand’s ad echoes the reaction to Budlight’s ads featuring Dylan Mulvaney, this recent ad isn’t simply another...