FreedomFest 2018

Dr. Mark Skousen is a financial economist, university professor and author of more than 25 books on economics, personal finance, and investing. His works include Economic Logic, The Maxims of Wall Street, A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street, The Making of Modern Economics, and The Compleated... Read More →

David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and has played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement. He is the author of The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom, which  the Los Angeles Times described as “a well-researched... Read More →

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. A non-practicing lawyer, Mac Donald has clerked for the late Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; has been an attorney-adviser in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and served as a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense... Read More →

Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine and a co-ambassador of FreedomFest. He writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading “Fact and Comment.” A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal... Read More →

In February 2009, in response to massive government expansion by the Bush and Obama administrations, Jenny Beth Martin and several other concerned citizens formed the beginnings of the modern Tea Party movement. Using her already established social and blogging network, as well as... Read More →