Much of organized Jewish campus life is devoted to liberal causes, but where are the conservatives?
Well, we have a fair share at UCSD, and they’re creating their own groups, such as the Triton, a conservative magazine that has a mostly-Jewish staff.
The Triton’s editor, Michael Hirshman, is a senior who considers himself a secular Jew and libertarian in his politics. He told me he is socially moderate, fiscally conservative, and broke away from UCSD’s California Review, a traditionally conservative publication that in his point of view was too far to the right. So he established the Triton to be a more middle-of-the-road publication, with a heavy emphasis on free speech.
I’ll be doing some more examination of the Triton, and what it means for conservative Jewish politics on campus.