Press: Conservative Rebels on Campus

Student editors and their papers are ready on the right

Crusading campus journalists: the phrase seems an echo from the dawn of the 1970s, when liberal young men and women in weathered jeans and lumberjack flannels would rail impassionedly at college deans and Uncle Sam for supposed indifference to the will of the people. In the years since, campuses all but fell silent. Now students are crusading again, attacking the same ready targets but from a diametrically opposite direction: the right.

Within the past two to three years, more than a dozen conservative publications...