The Dartmouth Review

The Dartmouth Review is a conservative, independent, bi-weekly newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (U.S.). It was founded in 1980 by disenchanted staffers—including Gregory Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Ben Hart, and Keeney Jones—from the college's daily newspaper, The Dartmouth. It spawned a movement of politically conservative independent U.S. college newspapers such as the Yale Free Press, Harvard Salient, California Review, Princeton Tory and Cornell Review, and has been at the center of several lawsuits.

Past staffers include author Dinesh D'Souza, talk show host Laura Ingraham, the Far Eastern Economic Review<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Hugo Restall, Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal, and The New Criterion<nowiki>'</nowiki>s James Panero. Author, columnist and former Nixon and Reagan speechwriter Jeffrey Hart, now Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College, was also instrumental in the founding of the newspaper and has been a long-time board member and adviser. As of 2006, it claims 10,000 off-campus subscribers and distributes a further 4,000 newspapers on campus.

Stances and controversies

The Darthmouth Review has consistently favored a stronger voice on the part of alumni who share its worldview in college governance and alumni issues, particularly elections to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees. In 1980, the paper reported on the election of John Steel, who later became an anti-seal activist in...
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