Weather update: A sudden flurry of snowflakes fell in an isolated section of central campus Wednesday evening in anticipation of the Cornell Republican’s fall speaker event featuring former Republican Senator and two-time presidential contender Rick Santorum. Other chants went along the lines of “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Rick Santorum go away!” The event consisted of a...
Rob Long, writer and producer of the long-running sitcom Cheers, spoke at Cornell last week at an event sponsored by Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies. Long focused on what he described as “the end of Hollywood,” and why it is in many ways a good thing. Hollywood used to be physical, with Hollywood...
The Cornell Review had the exclusive opportunity to interview Liz Wheeler, the 26-year old host of “Tipping Point” on One America News Network. Q: What advice would you give to young conservatives in college who might be afraid or reluctant to speak up about their political beliefs in the classroom, among friends, or in conservative...
The Cornell University College Republicans will host Fox News co-host of The Five Kimberly Guilfoyle on April 12 at 6:15 pm in Call Auditorium. The event is titled “A Fair and Balanced Approach to Politics” and according to a press release Guilfoyle will speak about “interpreting politics and the news in an objective manner.”...
Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies will host award-winning television writer and producer Rob Long later in the month for a discussion on the end of Hollywood. The event is titled “The End of Hollywood. And Why That’s a Good Thing.” Long received two Emmy nominations and a Writers Guild of America award for...
On Wednesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments pertaining to the Zubik v. Burwell case on the issue of whether the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) contraception mandate violates the rights of religious groups protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In anticipation of this high-profile case, Cornell’s chapter of the Federalist Society...
Today I shook the hand of my alma mater’s most decorated alum. Was it Bill Nye ’77? Bill Maher ’78? Maybe Keith Olbermann ’79? Well it couldn’t have been any of these celebrities, because they’ve never filled a room with less than 10 people delivering a keynote address. So it had to have been a...
Dr. Ben Carson is slowly but surely encroaching on Trump’s comfortably leading poll numbers as the campaign season only just begins. Very recently a no-name, quiet figure tucked away behind scrubs, the neurosurgeon has climbed his way up to a path that could very possibly lead him to the presidency. If you were fortunate enough...
Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad, a controversial speaker who in the past has written and spoken about alleged Zionist-Nazi collaboration and the “Anglo-American gay agenda,” delivered a speech at Cornell claiming Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state, and recognizing it as such is equivalent to recognizing Israel as a “racist state.”...
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Major Nadav Minkovsky, Military Advocate General’s Corps, spoke at the Cornell Law School last week on the topic of “Legal Complexities in Contemporary Asymmetrical Conflicts.” Cornell’s chapter of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law hosted the event, which drew in about 50 attendees, most of whom were...