The Kenyon Observer

Founded in 1989 by David Horner and Alex Novak, "The Kenyon Observer" is a conservative, undergraduate political journal at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In addition to publishing student commentary, the journal features interviews with scholars and pundits such as Norman Podhoretz, Andrew Sullivan, Lt. Gen. William Odom, Benjamin Barber, Francis Fukuyama, John Agresto, Mark Strand, Victor Davis Hanson, David Brooks, Paul Gottfried, and Harvey Mansfield.

Many contributors and editors of the journal have continued their career in political journalism, writing and editing for some of the most influential political publications, including "The Public Interest", "The National Interest", "The American Interest", "The Weekly Standard", "National Review", "The New Criterion", "Commentary Magazine," "The American Spectator", "Forbes," and "The New York Sun".

Alumni of "The Kenyon Observer" have also gone on to Washington D.C. to work for prominent think tanks and groups, such as the Cato Institute, the Project for the New American Century, the American Enterprise Institute, Intercollegiate Studies Institute,and Regnery Publishing. Another notable alumnus of "The Kenyon Observer" is Condoleezza Rice's chief speechwriter.

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