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Daniel Xu's column, "And So We Thought," reflects on the media ecosystem we live in. (Graphic: MEI KNUTSON/The Stanford Daily)

And So We Thought: Oppenheimer and the closing of the American mind

Daniel Xu
  •  
Oct. 27
News
A crowd listens to Dan Wang speak in a room

Hoover fellow Dan Wang advocates for ‘abundance’

Mara Hankins
  •  
Oct. 13
The Grind
Hoover Tower in a red light

Poem: The bloody cost of ‘freedom’

Sebastian Strawser
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Oct. 8
Columnists
Ash Wednesday, Duduna argues, is a way for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to reflect on their mortality and join in community rather than focus on their own self advancement. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

Chan | Why America desperately needed Pope Leo XIV

Ava Chan
  •  
June 5, 2025
Culture
Graphic of Chuer Yang's '27 column exploring internet rabbit holes.

Traveler, Your (Digital) Footprints: An escalator to heaven

Chuer Yang
  •  
May 29, 2025
Opinions
Ash Wednesday, Duduna argues, is a way for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to reflect on their mortality and join in community rather than focus on their own self advancement. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

From the Community | Pope Leo XIV offers the best of ‘American Catholicism’

From the Community
  •  
May 25, 2025
Campus Life
Students at Old Union Patio clap their hands and dance in rows at night.

Line dancing brings joy, ‘taste of rural life’ to campus

George Porteous
  •  
May 22, 2025
Humor
Our home and native land. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Dear Canada: Spread democracy by invading America

Richard Chen
  •  
May 15, 2025
News
Kai Carlson-Wee poses with his antique wooden briefcase

Going off-track: Kai Carlson-Wee’s journey to Stanford and beyond

Alana Belle M. Tirado
  •  
March 3, 2025
Magazine
White background with grey rectangle in center. Figures are across the grey rectangle with a web of red lines all over it.

The quiet exclusion: How the loss of diversity in diplomacy imperils the future

Rani Chor
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Jan. 31, 2025
Humor
Our Goddess, whose art is heave (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM)

America is doomed, and only Dolly Parton can save us

Mason Barrett
  •  
Jan. 29, 2025
Opinions
A blurry pastel image of Donald Trump in a suit and red tie.

Puri | 2024 presidential election offers conservatives nothing but heartache

John Puri
  •  
Nov. 3, 2024
The Grind
A baseball sits in an open desk drawer.

Inside the Junk Drawer: Baseball

Kaylee Chan
  •  
May 21, 2024
The Grind
Scene of a woman and a boy in the desert, touching hands.

‘Io Capitano’ evokes shared humanity at Stanford in Florence screening

Adelaide Madary
  •  
May 13, 2024
Humor
The back of a soldier in uniform walking down a path

Letters from a soldier fighting the War on Woke

Sachin Singh
  •  
March 3, 2024
News
Bikers and walkers bike around the "Circle of Death," the roundabout in front of Lane History Corner.

Workshops on wheels: Stanford Spokes travels to teach nationwide

Emerson Swift and Aslıhan Alp
  •  
Sept. 27, 2023
The Grind
A painting of an eye done in swirls of gray, white, green and specks of red.

‘Dreams Don’t Die When It Becomes Day’: Can you see me?

Amanda Altarejos
  •  
June 1, 2023
The Grind
A wooden spoon against a blank gray background.

An ode to spoons

Amanda Altarejos
  •  
Jan. 26, 2023
News
Francis Fukuyama and David Cohen speak during a monday event

Selective assertiveness is needed in Sino-American foreign policy, Stanford scholars say

Cassidy Dalva
  •  
Feb. 22, 2022
Opinions
Photo of the front of Main Quad, which holds Margaret Jacks Hall at Building 460

Opinion | Can supporting non-STEM majors help America’s political agenda?

Rebecca Wang
  •  
Nov. 7, 2021
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