The U.S. and Its Allies Have a Role to Play in Ending Iran’s Maritime War
A lesson from the 1980s.
August 11, 2021
The Search for Stanford’s Forgotten Jewish Quota
Just as older schools opened their doors, Stanford closed its own.
While the older, Ivy League universities of the East Coast notoriously had restrictions on Jews in the earlier part of the 20th century, Stanford—founded relatively recently, in 1885—supposedly did not. Yet when Charles Petersen began delving through the archives of Stanford’s admission department, he was shocked to find “JEWS” written by hand on one document after another. These annotations, as Petersen explains, had nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. But he eventually uncovered evidence that Stanford indeed tried to limit the proportion of its Jewish students in the 1950s—just as the older schools were shedding their discriminatory policies:
August 11, 2021
The Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Should Stay Out of Middle East Politics
A BDS resolution doesn’t help children.
Remembering the Great Jewish Historian of Ancient Greece and His Wisdom about the Present
World Wars I, II, and III.
Israel’s Latest Prestige Drama Is Artistically Inept and Encourages the Worst Misconceptions about Zionist History
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.
The Search for Stanford’s Forgotten Jewish Quota
Just as older schools opened their doors, Stanford closed its own.