FreedomFest 2018

John Iannarelli was a Special Agent and national spokesperson for the FBI. He is a subject matter expert in cyber security and terrorism, whose investigative work includes the 9/11 attack, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the Sony hack. John is the recipient of... Read More →

Mike Lee has spent his career defending the basic liberties of Americans and Utahns as a tireless advocate for the founding constitutional principles. Senator Lee served as law clerk to future Supreme Court Justice Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third... Read More →

Bartley J. Madden, a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, retired as a managing director of Credit Suisse HOLT after a career in investment research and money management that included the founding of Callard Madden & Associates. Madden’s early research led to the development... Read More →

Author of seventeen books and editor of eight others, and having written over four hundred scholarly articles, Deirdre McCloskey is well known internationally in economics, economic history, rhetorical theory, philosophy of science, statistical theory, gender studies, and other fields... Read More →

Lawrence J. McQuillan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of the new Independent book, California Dreaming: How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and has served as Chief Economist at the Illinois Policy Institute, Director of Business and Economic Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and founding publisher and contributing... Read More →

John Tamny is Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks. He's also editor of RealClearMarkets and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading. Tamny frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that... Read More →

Robert M. Whaples is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, and editor of the widely acclaimed Independent book, Pope Francis and the Caring Society. He is co-editor and managing editor of The Independent Review, and has recently... Read More →