WSJ Officially Announces Robert L. Bartley Fellows

Well, this is cool.

April 26, 2011 I am delighted to announce the 2011 Robert L. Bartley Fellows. The fellowships are named in honor of the late Editor of the Journal, Bob Bartley, for young men and women whose views are broadly consistent with Bob’s beliefs in economic and political liberty and who aspire to careers in journalism. They will work this summer as paid interns on the Journal’s opinion pages in New York, in London for The Wall Street Journal Europe and in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal Asia.
 The 2011 Bartley Fellows are: Charlie Dameron, from San Antonio, will graduate in June from Dartmouth College with a major in government and history.  He is the editor in chief of The Dartmouth Review and is currently finishing a senior honors thesis on the effects of U.S. international broadcasting.  He has written for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, spent a semester in research at the American University of Kuwait and interned in the office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.  Charlie will work in New York this summer reporting to Robert Messenger, books editor. Charles Johnson, from Milton, Mass., will graduate from Claremont McKenna College in May with a major in government and economics.  He is the founding editor of The Claremont Conservative, a daily blog, and has served as editor of The Claremont Independent.  He is a Claremont Review of Books fellow and for several years worked as a research assistant to Alan Dershowitz and the Kauffman Foundation.  He will work in New York this summer reporting to Robert Pollock, editorial features editor. Nash Keune, from Germantown, Maryland, will graduate in May from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in economics and American history.  He is editor in chief of the Carolina Review and last summer worked for Lawson for Congress as the Orange County coordinator.  He worked for the Montgomery County Libertarian Examiner in 2009.  He will work in New York this summer reporting to James Freeman, assistant editor, editorial page.
 Kathleen McCaffrey, from Fair Lawn, New Jersey, is a rising senior at Cornell University with a major in philosophy and history.  She is a staff writer and campus editor of The Cornell Review and is the editor and founder of www.ThePoliticizer.com, an online magazine of opinion articles from students across the country.  Last summer she interned at America’s Future Foundation through the Koch Summer Fellow program.   She will work in London this summer, reporting to Brian Carney, editorial page editor, WSJE.
 Matt Payne, from Rochester, Minnesota, is a rising senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major in Chinese and economics.  He is an opinion columnist for The Daily Cardinal.   He served as a midshipman in naval ROTC.  He will work in Hong Kong this summer reporting to Hugo Restall, editorial page editor, WSJA.
 Please join me in welcoming them to the Journal this summer. All best, Paul Gigot

"Most Likely to Conquer the World"

I've been told I won the award of "most likely to conquer the world" at the Senior Dinner last night. I'm not sure whether it's meant as a compliment or an insult, but the more I think about it, taking over the world might not be so bad...

Although I have to wonder... why settle at the world?