The Stanford Review is a libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 student-run newspaper that serves Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in Stanford, California

Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census....

. It was founded in 1987 by Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel is an American business magnate, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. With Elon Musk and Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO...

 and Norman Book. It is published and distributed without charge to the Stanford community periodically during the academic year.

Notable former editors

Several of its former editors – including David O. Sacks

David O. Sacks

David Oliver Sacks is the founder and CEO of Web 2.0 companies Geni, Inc. and Yammer, Inc..-Biography:Sacks attended the Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 1994 and received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School...

 and Ken Howery

Ken Howery

Ken Howery is a co-founder and managing partner at Founders Fund.Howery graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. in Economics. He was a co-founder of PayPal and served as the company's first CFO from 1998 until 2002. His partner within this Paypal project was Peter Thiel at Thiel...

 joined with Thiel to start PayPal

PayPal

PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....

, the online payments company.

Books written by former editors

Books written by its former editors include:

• The Diversity Myth by David O. Sacks and Peter Thiel
• The PayPal Wars
  The PayPal Wars
  The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth is a book by former PayPal marketing executive Eric M. Jackson that was published in 2004 by World Ahead Publishing.ISBN 0-9746701-0-3...
  
  by Eric M. Jackson
  Eric M. Jackson
  Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder of CapLinked, focused on linking companies and investors. He was founder and former CEO of WND Books and a former vice president of marketing at PayPal...
  
  
• Thank You, President Bush by Aman Verjee
• Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
  Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
  Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine is a book by Candice E. Jackson. Published by conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen...
  
  by Candice E. Jackson
• How to Beat a Grandmaster: Secrets Every Amateur Should Know About Playing the Pros by Chris Seck

External links

• The Stanford Review