FreedomFest 2019

John Tamny is Vice President at FreedomWorks, and Director of its Center for Economic Freedom (CEF). The latter aims to change the economic policy discussion through making economic understanding a function of knowing what's happening in the world around us.    Tamny is also editor... Read More →

Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, is the Senior Scholar for The Atlas Society, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, as well as the Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship also at Rockford University. In 2010, he won his... Read More →

Clark Neily is vice president for criminal justice at the Cato Institute. Before that he was a constitutional litigator at the Institute for Justice, and he served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of... Read More →

Robert Lawson holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and is director of the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business. Dr. Lawson is a co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom... Read More →

John Prevas is an author, educator and mediator. He was scholar in residence and assistant professor of classics at Eckerd College from 2001 until 2011, and since 2015 has been visiting professor of classics at the University of South Florida, Sarasota.  His most recent book is Hannibal's... Read More →