He is a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

[1] Kengor has focused much of his work on Ronald Reagan, faith and the presidency, conservative politics, the Cold War, Communism, and Catholicism.

[citation needed] Initially seeking a medical career, Kengor majored in biochemistry/biophysics at the University of Pittsburgh where he worked for Thomas Starzl's organ-transplant team, the pioneer of organ transplantation.

[4] Kengor has done work for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Heritage Foundation and Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, conservative think tanks.

[6] In September 2022, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder of The American Spectator, announced that Kengor will be succeeding him as editor in chief of the magazine.