Stanford University

The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.

Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

Two recent books illuminate the dark foundations of Silicon Valley.

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

Many of the ­private colleges and universities in the US arose as much out of vanity as necessity. But for morbid narcissism, nothing comes close to Stanford.

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.

It’s time to move past the tech sector’s creator myths.

A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

Campus speech debates reveal a history of distorted narratives, balancing free speech, moral standards, and generational conflicts in U.S. universities.

Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?

How a 37-word clause tucked inside a new education legislation reshape women’s sports forever.

Markoff’s biography of Stewart Brand notes that Brand’s ability to recognize and cleave to power explains a great deal of his career.

A review of three new books that in various ways track the rise of the "Professional Managerial Class."

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

The railroad baron and governor of California was starkly contradictory and infamously disruptive.

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.

'The Population Bomb' made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world.

The roots of the student debt crisis are neither economic nor financial in origin, but rather social.