Armavirumque, Jun 27, 2005 01:20 PM

The Dartmouth Review at 25

by James Panero

Twenty-five years ago, The Dartmouth Review published its first issue--the first of its kind. Off campus. Conservative. Funded by alumni. Free of all college censorship and control. The paper quickly became a famous, if to the Left, infamous, institution. It reared a generation of young conservative journalists that includes Dinesh D’Souza and Laura Ingraham--and count ’em, two editors of The New Criterion. The Review also became Dartmouth’s unofficial journalism school and formed the model for the zillion other conservative newspapers that now publish at what seems like every college and university worth anything. The Review was big, and it’s still thriving.

We’ll have more here on The Dartmouth Review as the paper celebrates its silver anniversary. But if you want quick speaking points on The Review success story, go no further than "Lessons from Jeffrey Hart" by Dartmouth Reviewer/Dartmouth Trustee Peter Robinson, and "A Quarter-Century of TDR," by current Review editor Michael Ellis. Ellis’s excellent jubilee issue is testament alone to the successes of twenty-five years of The Dartmouth Review.