Minerva is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 liberal conservative periodical that started publishing in 1924. It was started by members of the Conservative Students' association

Conservative Students' Association (Oslo)

The Conservative Students' Association is a Norwegian students' association of the University of Oslo, located at Majorstuen, Slemdalsveien 7 together with the Norwegian Students' Society. It is politically conservative and is associated with the Conservative Party and the European Democrat Students...

 in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. In , Nils August Andresen is executive editor, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen

Torbjørn Røe Isaksen

Torbjørn Røe Isaksen is a Norwegian politician and MP for the Conservative Party.He was the leader of the Young Conservatives , the youth wing of the Conservative Party, from 2004 to 2008. He is also the political editor in the gazette Minerva. Isaksen has a Master's degree in political science...

 editor on society, Kristian Meisingset

Kristian Meisingset

Kristian Meisingset is a Norwegian editor on culture in the conservative quarterly periodical Minerva. He has a master in literature from the University of Oslo, and is now Norwegian language-teacher at Sonans Privatgymnas...

 on culture and Fredrik Gierløff on politics. Magnus Thue is Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

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. It receives financial support from Liberal Science Institute, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation is a directorate under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its task is to ensure effective foreign aid, with quality assurance and evaluation. NORAD both finances NGOs, and does its own research and projects. The current director general is...

 and the Conservative Party of Norway

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

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