The Cornell Review’s First Issue of the Year
A bit of self-promotion: I’m the editor-in-chief of The Cornell Review, and we just printed our first issue of the year. We are a conservative-libertarian student publication, both print and online.
Below is an excerpt from an article I wrote, which is a letter to incoming freshmen. You can read the whole piece as well as all the other ones published in our first issue at our website, www.theocornellreview.com.
Who, What, Why: Conservatives at Cornell
First, I’m going to make an assumption about you, and then you can make an assumption about me.
My assumption: As a Cornell freshman, you are smart, curious, and scared.
Your assumption: As a Cornell conservative, I am stupid, close-minded, and scared.
The more astute reader will realize I actually made both assumptions, but I think you get my point. To be a conservative—or a libertarian, as I politically identify myself—at college is certainly not easy, for it carries a lot of undeserved baggage.
However, why would I, or any of you, with great intellect and energetic, inquiring minds want to get by easily? Or want anything but a challenge? To maintain, cultivate, and mature one’s beliefs and ideas about politics, economics, and the like at Cornell, or at any college campus, is an enormous feat. To do so in the conservative or libertarian paradigm is a near-Sisyphean struggle, but it is definitely worth it.
So, to all the conservatives, libertarians, neoclassicists, Republicans, and those who are decidedly not liberal or progressive in the Class of 2018, I offer an unparalleled opportunity.
The Cornell Review is the campus’s only conservative-libertarian publication, and it is your avenue and tool by which to express the beliefs and opinions you know are true but are assaulted, aligned, and countered everyday on campus. Whether these ideas or beliefs pertain to politics, economics, philosophy, or culture, the Review is your solace and springboard to hone your writing and debating skills and in turn defend your beliefs to a wide readership of people who mostly disagree with you.
