High Quality Journalism

This article for the Stanford Daily by Nick Fram offers some highly intellectual analysis of Pope Benedict XVI's name selection. Nick ponders, "Nobody names a kid Urban or Hilarius, so this was his chance to have a name that nobody else had. Too bad. Or he could have made up his own name. John Paul II’s predecessor, John Paul I was, obviously, the first of his nominal line. And he’s the pope, so nobody’s going to make fun of his name no matter how ridiculous it may be. Did he ever consider taking a woman’s name? How great would that be if the new pope were called, say, Mary I?"

Stanford is obviously at the leading edge of journalistic research and analysis.