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Cory Booker looked like the perfect confection for Acela corridor elites: impeccable educational credentials (Stanford, Oxford, Yale, darling), social media élan and easy proximity to New York’s chummy culture of…

…the Goldwater Institute, the Heartland Institute (where I work), the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, the Hoover Institution, Notre Dame University, the National Association of Scholars, the Pioneer Institute, Stanford University,…

…Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Dr. Sowell is well known as a small government conservative. Were he to be elected, we may safely assume that he would attempt to implement a program…

…to coast, of all political persuasions, have expressed their opposition. Research done by James Milgram, professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford, shows that mathematics standards will put American students two…

…these privileged kids went off to schools like Denison, Brown or Stanford, their journey to cultural, political and economic liberalism was a short one. Please understand that I loved attending…

…board at the Orange County Register, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and the host of a series of podcasts for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University….

…that to offer a course in “Western Civilization” is to become an apologist “for Western hegemony and oppression” (as the classicist Bruce Thornton aptly put it). Thus, Stanford dropped its…

…American conservatives. Writing for National Review, the Stanford classicist Victor Davis Hanson compared Putin to Milton’s Satan, arguing that “he winds up existing to warn us in the West of…

…that to offer a course in “Western Civilization” is to become an apologist “for Western hegemony and oppression” (as the classicist Bruce Thornton aptly put it). Thus, Stanford dropped its…

…a system of social/reputational punishments and rewards – in a 1999 Stanford Law Review article about Availability Cascades. His co-author Timur Kuran, wrote a whole book about how “preference falsification”…

…secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and provost of Stanford University as a “war criminal.” At Dartmouth, another mob of students took over administrative offices in February with a list…

…An interesting academic look at this is in a Stanford Law Review article by Cass Sunstein and Timur Kuran on “availability cascades.” It explains how you can take an implausible…

…about anybody else’s private school, but the one my children attend, they took the Stanford 10 [test], which is actually a lot better … than the FCAT [Florida’s state test]….

…athletic programs have renamed their teams: the Stanford Indians became the Cardinal; Marquette’s Warriors are now the Golden Eagles; and the St. John’s Redmen the Red Storm. The Redskins retain…

…Her career track reads like the resume of someone with more connections than she knows what to do with: For a decade after graduating from Stanford in 2001, Chelsea experimented…

…so far fail to impress. According to a Stanford University study, all Pennsylvania cyber charter schools underperform, and those in others states fare just as poorly in math and reading…

…Masters took on “the course about startups” that Thiel taught at Stanford University in 2012. If you want a wild ride, look up those notes. The Thiel course is really…

…at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded, antiquated, and unnecessarily restrictive of centralized executive power. These fundamental concepts of the meaning and application of the Constitution in today’s modern…

…them by others. For this reason, when I delivered a speech at Stanford University on April 5 as part of my efforts to move children’s rights scholarship in a new…

…the opportunity to create their custom-made, designer child. An egg donor from Stanford University or a sperm donor who played football for a top-25 NCAA school will always be preferred…

…to administer these tests to admit voucher students. So much for school choice. Even the tests common to private schools, such as the Iowa Basics or Stanford Achievement Test, are…

…despite Chelsea determining that she needs to inform women what their majors should be, she personally majored in history at Stanford University and later pursued a master’s in public health…

…the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Rawls’s negative thesis is that citizens do not deserve to be born into a rich or a poor family, to be born naturally more or…

…Psychology professor Gregory Herek explained the futility of gay “conversion therapy” in light of research on sexual orientation, and Stanford University political scientist Gary Segura testified to the broad entrenchment…

…was coined by an American diplomat in 1968 to describe what was already happening. But the environmentalists ignored it. Here is how the king of the overpopulation hysteria, Stanford University’s…

…his daughters to Stanford University when such things were considered an extravagant waste. Or so the story went. Great-Grandpa, the Neo-Nazi Imagine my surprise when I googled C. Montaville and…

…subordinating science to the advocacy needs of politics. Let me leave the last word with Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Prize-winning Stanford University physicist and former research scientist at Lawrence Livermore…

…dreamt up by Stanford grads in Silicon Valley; it’s just the inevitable result of a long over-regulated economy. Having taxed the cost of skilled and unskilled industry right off of…

…wildly wrong. Advocates like Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren—currently President Obama’s science advisor—warned of a global crisis that might require draconian action such as forced sterilization. History…

…an illegitimate decision. What Stanford Law School Dean John Ely said of Roe v. Wade applies with equal force to Obergefell: ‘It is not constitutional law and gives almost no…

…philosopher of science Sandra Harding referred to Newton’s “Principia” as a “rape manual,” and a year before Jesse Jackson led Stanford student protesters chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ…

…New research even suggests the benefits of a stay-at-home parent extend far beyond a child’s first year. Eric Bettinger, an associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education, worked alongside…

…to a top-tier law school, such as Harvard, Stanford or Yale, and winds up in the bottom 10 percent of his class, flunks out, or cannot pass the bar examination,…

…blame. Shelby Steele, an African-American author and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, makes this point in his 2006 book “White Guilt,” a must-read for anyone trying to…

…a two-minute promotional video, which opens with the names of elite institutions floating across the screen: Brown, Princeton, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Rice. The scrolling text then explains “the admissions game…

…years ago in an article in the Stanford Law Review. To make an implausible idea seem plausible to people, you have to first make the idea “available” by repeatedly injecting…