A review of Stanford Repertory Theater's current play, "Moby Dick - Rehearsed"quotes Rush Rehm, professor of theater and performance studies and of classics, and the play's director.

Cécile Alduy addresses how France’s political scandals play into the hands of the extreme right

Priya Satia, associate professor of history, writes about drones' roots in Western aerial control of the Middle East, beginning in World War I.

The Cantor Arts Center has received three significant gifts of contemporary art by Richard Diebenkorn, Andy Warhol and Jacob Lawrence from separate donors. 

David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature, expresses dismay over the U.S. Senate's unanimous vote in support of Israeli defense forces in Gaza.

Stanford Repertory Theater's production of "Moby Dick—Rehearsed" in the Stanford Rep summer festival, "Orson Welles: Substantial Shadows" is reviewed. 

Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative studies and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has written an Op-ed piece responding to feedback on the Modern Language Association report on the Ph.D. in languages and literatures.

Stanford's Roble Gym will be remodeled into an "arts gym," a drop-in studio and performing arts space, another step to expand Stanford's new arts district. 

Elijah Meeks, a digital humanities specialist, and Walter Scheidel, professor of history and of classics, have created a map that shows how long it would have taken to travel around the Roman empire and how much the trip would have cost, on average and according to simulations based on historical evidence.

In a video, Robert Proctor, professor of history, talks about the tobacco company Reynolds American's potential acquisition of rival Lorillard.

H. Samy Alim co-author with Geneva Smitherman of "Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S." and Stanford professor at the Graduate School of Education, is cited for coining the term "languaging race" to describe how attitudes toward language varieties are attitudes toward the people who speak these varieties.