FreedomFest 2024

Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media.Steve’s newest project is the podcast “What’s Ahead,” where he engages the world’s top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions... Read More →

John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review. He worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, starting in 1984, and was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board from 1995 to 2001.Fund has written for Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and... Read More →

Monica Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She spent more than a decade as a business and legal affairs executive at Walt Disney Television, NBCUniversal... Read More →

Professor Gale L. Pooley teaches U.S. economic history at Utah Tech University. He has taught economics and statistics at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Brigham Young University‐​Idaho, Boise State University, and the College of Idaho.Dr. Pooley earned his BBA in... Read More →

Marian L. Tupy is the founder and editor of HumanProgress.org, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.He is the coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flouris... Read More →

Rainer Zitelmann is a historian, sociologist and multiple bestselling author, whose books include How Nations Escape Poverty, Hitler’s National Socialism, The Power of Capitalism and In Defense of Capitalism. He published 29 books. His books have been translated into 30 languages. In recent years, he has written articles and been the subject of interviews in leading media such as Forbes, Wallstreet Journal, Newsweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Le Monde, Corriere della Sera, Frankfurter... Read More →