The Cornell American is an often-controversial independent student-run conservative monthly opinion newspaper at Cornell University, founded in 1992. It competes for attention with the more established Cornell Review, another conservative paper founded in 1984.
Craig Hymowitz, a chairman of the Cornell College Republicans with a difficult history with the Review, is credited with the original vision for the American. After research, it was decid...
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The Cornell American is an often-controversial independent student-run conservative monthly opinion newspaper at Cornell University, founded in 1992. It competes for attention with the more established Cornell Review, another conservative paper founded in 1984.
Craig Hymowitz, a chairman of the Cornell College Republicans with a difficult history with the Review, is credited with the original vision for the American. After research, it was decided that an independent group would be a more viable project than a partisan publication. In January 1992, Hymowitz, Jonathan Bloedow, and Hartley Etheridge founded The American Society, an organization formed to "advance classical American values, and to publish a journal, The Cornell American."
The first issue, entitled "The Endangered American," was published in March 1992. It contrasted with the Review in appearance and style, but most notably in tone￢ﾀﾔthe older paper was known for its "zany" humor and lampooning of campus excesses,...
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