Hat Trick

A messy academic scuffle drove the Stanford anthropology department to split in two. The story behind the unusual breakup reflects a widening schism in the field.

by Mitchell Leslie

For an elite group of students, the much-hyped world of Silicon Valley is hardly theoretical. They're getting hands-on exposure to start-ups before they even finish college.

by Robert L. Strauss

She’s young, she’s impatient, she’s blunt. Susan Rice, ’86, is a different kind of diplomat.

by Martha Brant

It was a brilliant gimmick that sold well in Thailand. Surely it would take America by storm—and make this Business School graduate rich. Wouldn't it?

by Robert L. Strauss

by Raymond Hardie

They called it the Monster: a two-mile linear accelerator designed to study the basic building blocks of matter. Forty years later, physicist Wolfgang Panofsky recalls the drama surrounding the creation of SLAC.

by Bernard Butcher

Thirty years after a classmate's death, a New York City preacher reflects on the mysteries of love and friendship.

by Forrest Church

If, after 25 years, affirmative action has not succeeded in ending discrimination, perhaps it is time to try something else.

by David Sacks and Peter Thiel

by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.