Limousine liberals
Harvard’s dining hall staff has been on strike since Oct. 5 to protest stagnant wages. Hundreds of students joined their ranks. As of Oct. 24, word has it that the striking workers and Harvard have...
View ArticleSurprise! The Review is wrong again
On Oct. 31, the Review, in typical contrarian fashion, published an article in favor of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and against the Standing Rock protesters. Its argument, also in typical...
View ArticleAnother note on Standing Rock
This article won’t be about the election, unlike most of the things you’ll read today. I am writing before the results come in. I have, at the time of this writing, no idea who will win the presidency...
View ArticleReclaiming identity in Trump’s America
About seven or eight years ago, my grandfather, who has never been to the States, asked me to do two things on our weekly Skype call. First, visit the railroad museum in Sacramento; second, to look...
View ArticleFidel: an obituary
Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba, leader of the Cuban Revolution and international anti-imperialist icon, passed on November 25, 2016 at age 90. As with any man – especially one who has passed...
View ArticleA New Year’s resolution
I know that the New Year’s resolution is supposed to be cheerful, happy, uplifting, hopeful … But at this point, I can’t say any of these things of those things. 2016 was a tough political year for...
View ArticleParticipation trophies
The trope about how every child gets a trophy at sporting games just for participating is now long among the cliched staple of anecdotes that supposedly demonstrate how millennials are entitled brats....
View ArticleDo not despair
For some reason, the Trump inauguration didn’t really register as much for me emotionally as I thought it would. I thought it would be many of the same things I felt on Election Day: anger, grief,...
View ArticleMoving beyond moral outrage
When Trump proposed his 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to defray the cost of a border wall, my parents called me because they had a question about the proposal: “Won’t this make our groceries more...
View ArticleNot mob violence, but a show of force
If one can say anything about the political climate of this campus, it is undoubtedly that there isn’t much goodwill towards the present presidential administration, to say the least. But the question...
View ArticleThe economy is not doing well
Going into the election last November, I noticed something extremely interesting about Stanford. Now, it’s a well-known fact that most college campuses are liberal and anti-Trump. It’s the nature of...
View ArticleNo, your tuition is not funding Hamas
This Monday, the Review again assumed its role as Stanford’s instigator-in-chief by publishing a wildly sensationalist article insinuating that our Stanford tuition dollars are funding Hamas, the...
View ArticleOur so-called administration
Last week, President Donald Trump gave his address to a joint session of Congress and garnered immediate critical acclaim for being, as the “Washington Post” puts it, “surprisingly presidential.” Of...
View ArticleA letter to my community
To my community: I graduated from Arcadia High School in 2015 before coming here to Stanford. Unlike what the stereotypes may suggest, I was not the valedictorian. I was not even the salutatorian. In...
View ArticleSalvaging American democracy
Last week, while doing some hiking in Southern California, I stumbled upon some stickers affixed to various signs on the trail: A portrait of a smiling Donald Trump, with the caption, in all caps:...
View ArticleUnited Airlines: Corporatocracy in rawest form
By now, I think most people have now seen the viral video of an Asian-American doctor who was bloodied and forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight by police officers, all because the flight was...
View ArticleThe American tourist
“Where are you studying abroad?” “Washington, so I guess not really ‘abroad,’ technically.” “Hey, that’s cool, too! Why Washington and not, like, Florence?” This has been an exchange I’ve had a lot...
View ArticleO’Reilly: an obituary
I think it goes without saying that Bill O’Reilly isn’t really dead. I titled this an “obituary” because, frankly, I just always expected O’Reilly to die on the job, which is not so much a comment on...
View ArticleDoes The Review care about undocumented students?
On April 29, The Stanford Review yet again assumed its role as Stanford’s instigator-in-chief by publishing a tirade (by two writers who are apparently not to be conflated with The Review “as an...
View ArticleDear Mrs. Clinton: Please retire.
“Into exile I must go. Failed, I have.” For people who didn’t spend approximately 60 percent of their childhood watching Star Wars movies over and over again like I did, Jedi Master Yoda uttered these...
View ArticleThe problem with debates
The Stanford Political Union is a new student group that has been making waves on campus. It distinguishes itself from many other political organizations on campus by hosting debates between two...
View ArticleA message to immigrant parents
Last week, I had the privilege of attending a community conversation about mental health in Stanford’s Asian American community. One of the motifs that came up again and again during this conversation...
View ArticleFear and silence
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article stated that The Stanford Review provided Robert Spencer with their article on Professor Palumbo-Liu for publication on his blog, however the Review and...
View ArticleMirai Nagasu and home
Growing up in China when I was younger, there was this one news story that would show up every time there was a major athletic event like the Olympics. The motif is always exactly the same: a tiny,...
View ArticleStanford bubble? What bubble?
Earlier this quarter, I woke up one morning to an unforgettable text: “Dude, you’re on the front page of Jihad Watch.” And sure enough, on the screenshot sent over to me, there was a picture of me...
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When Silicon Valley accidentally reinvents the city bus
About a month ago, tech mogul Elon Musk came up with what he thought was a brilliant idea: “[Thousands] of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination...
View ArticleStarbucks, differential treatment and unequal justice
Once, I had to meet a friend at Starbucks. I showed up early, and they weren’t there yet, so I grabbed a table and sat down to wait for my friend to show before ordering. Before I knew it, there was an...
View ArticleIn defense of dining halls
Once in a while, we get an article in a campus publication complaining about the food at the dining halls. And, I have to admit, after almost three years, I’m still a little taken aback every time I...
View ArticleStanford is not your battleground
A few months back, during ASSU campaign season, a curious email circulated, with a slate of candidates declaring that they “think that Stanford hasn’t exactly been the best in representing low-income,...
View ArticleNotes from the battleground
The title of my last column was “Stanford is not your battleground.” Given the revelations since then — which culminated in a series of leaked emails in which the president of Stanford College...
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