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…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…

…who eventually lost the farm. Matthews went to Stanford University and Raskin to Georgetown and Harvard universities, and both then entered professions that gave them relatively unique opportunities to build…

…Dirty Decentralization should even appeal to conservatives ambivalent about voters’ purported powerlessness—those who believe personal agency could make a positive difference. Indeed, Stanford University’s Raj Chetty recently found that the…

…from American production lines. When Will These Refugees Get Their Apology? There is only one academic study of Operation Keelhaul by an American, published in 1975 by Stanford University’s Julius…

…leverage, charter schools have been making a difference in educational outcomes. A Stanford study last year showed they make a meaningful difference for underserved kids in urban areas. These results…

…of high-tech businesses have at least one immigrant founder. According to a study by Stanford University, from 2007 to 2012, Latino-owned new business formation increased 47 percent. A Manhattan Institute…

…environment,” said Moniz, who previously served as the head of the Physics department at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, earned a doctorate degree in physics from Stanford University. “The natural…

…during the 1980s and the Stanford biologist’s confident prediction that “sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,” mankind not only endured, but more than doubled in population—all…

…at stake.” The group letter to the NAACP cites a Stanford University study showing that black students who attended charter schools exhibited the equivalent of 14 days’ more learning in…

…to the controversies surrounding Stanford University student Brock Turner, who was convicted of assaulting an unconscious woman, we have all witnessed some particularly vehement examples of contempt for rapists. When…

…$991 billion, according to Pension Tracker, an initiative of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Other states have already passed or are considering similar plans. Unremarkably, they all share…

…thinking about our tradition. Conservative scholars can remind us to study and teach the tradition. I told the director of a program at Stanford that I admired the students at…

…of the kid who left your hometown to study engineering at Stanford University and launch a tech firm isn’t going to help you. America isn’t a class-based country. Locations aren’t…

…a new ice age. Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” gave lectures about how England would no longer exist in this new ice…

…high school All-Americans, a major difference between them and the star-studded Tide. The Huskies enjoyed notable victories against Stanford (44–6), Oregon (70–21), and most recently Colorado (41–10), but experienced a…

…is that no peace is possible until justice is settled. When in 1988 the Black Student Union managed to erase the list of compulsory first-year readings at Stanford University after…

…publication: For Mr. Moniz, the future of nuclear science has been a lifelong obsession; he spent his early years working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Mr. Perry studied animal…

…Rule was reinstated. In 2011, researchers at Stanford University evaluated abortion rates in sub-Saharan African countries before and after 2001, when Bush revived the policy. They found ‘robust empirical patterns…

…of the Stanford Institute for Policy Research puts the cumulative debt for all public pension systems at $5.599 trillion, or $46,884 per household. But amid the growing concern about how…

…And what’s that perfect storm? That young women are now willing to call themselves feminists and, as her Stanford colleague put it: “[t]hose young women now expect the same equality…

…the men’s Final Four. The University of Connecticut went to the Final Four in all five women’s tournaments; Notre Dame and Stanford when four times. Only Kentucky went to more…

…dean of Stanford writes a book on how herding our kids in a higher education rat race stunts their growth, and yet we still persist. An elementary school mother’s group…

…may read the full report here. ​ This excerpt was originally published in Defining Ideas. ​Copyright © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. It…

…Chloe Jennings-White is very capable and well-accomplished, a research scientist with degrees from Cambridge and Stanford. However, she “knows” she is also a paraplegic, even though fate has dealt her…

…well-esteemed professor at Stanford, as well as the president of that university’s Center for Conservation Biology. A man continually makes outlandishly fake predictions and beclowns himself on the global scientific…

…early for most children’s developmental status.” A later start in school isn’t just good for children academically, it is also good for them psychologically. A study from the Stanford Center…

…the most recent instances of this claim resides in Nikolai Wenzel’s first-rate defense of libertarianism in “Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?” (Stanford: 2017). Yet a closer look at the Founders’…

…engineers estimated the probability to be 1 in 100, not the 1 in 100,000 management cited. In a republished article on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, Stanford University…

…Francis Collins, and Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Stephen Ostroff met in the White House with Stanford University’s president and the CEOs of the Mayo Clinic and…

…there are so many examples of racially segregated dances, student housing facilities, and commencement ceremonies, it’s hard to keep up. Vanderbilt, UC-Davis, Cornell, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and scores…

…decades. The Milgram experiment on Obedience to Authority in 1963 tested how long normal people would inflict pain on others, and the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 couldn’t be completed…

…incarcerated population, bail reform would boost the United States’ stagnating income mobility by reforming a system that traps the poor in poverty. Upward mobility has stalled. According to Stanford Professor…

…less and they’re more distractible when on the job,” and Stanford sociology professor, Shelley, J. Correll, who states, “A lot of these effects really are very much due to a…

…sue scientists to prevent them from questioning it? That’s the question raised by a $10 million lawsuit lawsuit filed by Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson accusing other scientists of…

…Christie’s novels? In her recent essay, “Why Mystery Stories Are the Cure for What Ails Us All,” Angelina Stanford argues that readers continue to get lost in mystery novels because…