FreedomFest 2024: Full Schedule

7:00pm PDT

FreedomFest Book Signings

Wednesday July 10, 2024 7:00pm - 7:30pm PDT

Speakers

Andrew Doyle

Writer, Broadcaster and Satirist

Andrew Doyle is a writer, broadcaster and satirist. He is the author of "Free Speech and Why It Matters" and "The New Puritans". He is the presenter of "Free Speech Nation", a weekly television show on GB News.

Lou Perez

Comedian and Author

Lou Perez is a comedian, producer with Cancelled Productions LLC, and author of That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy. You may have seen him on FOX’s Gutfeld! and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black).Lou was the head writer and producer of t... Read More →

Randy Barnett

Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution

Professor Randy Barnett teaches constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. A former criminal prosecutor in Chicago, he argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich in the Supreme Court before... Read More →

Nathan Lewis

Editor, Polaris Letter

Nathan Lewis has written five books on economic topics, and has been featured in television documentaries in the U.S., South Korea, China, Russia, and Britain. He has spoken at events hosted by the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College and others, and has testified... Read More →

Shawn Nelson

CEO, Lovesac

Shawn Nelson founded Lovesac in 1998 and is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Company and as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Nelson is the lead designer of the Company's patented products and leads sourcing, creative, design, public relations, investor relations... Read More →

Rob Schneider

Comedian/Author

Rob Schneider is an accomplished actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the award-winning NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider has gone on to a successful career in films, television and continues his worldwide standup tour... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2024 7:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Exhibit Hall Book Store

Book Signing

10:00am PDT

FreedomFest Book Signings

Thursday July 11, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

Exhibit Hall Book Store

Speakers

Joel Wade

Author, Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions

Joel F. Wade, Ph.D. is Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Coach, and the author of Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions Workbook, The Virtue of Happiness, Mastering Happiness, The Mastering Happiness Podcast, and The Mastering Happiness Blog, all drawing from the increasingly useful research in psychology in general, and positive psychology in particular; a deep understanding of somatic psychotherapy, and his over four decades of working with people and organizations professionally. He has written regularly for a variety... Read More →

Michael Cobb

CEO, ECI Development

At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Mr. Cobb left to pursue more pioneering opportunities in the emerging real estate markets of Central America. In 1996, he and his business partner formed a company, Exotic Caye International, to provide loans to North... Read More →

John Mackey

Co-founder and CEO, Love.Life

John Mackey is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and visionary of Whole Foods Market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the U.S., U.K., and Canada with annual sales exceeding $22 billion and more than... Read More →

Kerry McDonald

Senior Fellow, FEE and Host, LiberatED Podcast

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Net... Read More →

Matt Ridley

Author, How Innovation Works, Rational Optimist, Viral

Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovati... Read More →

Michael Shermer

Founding Publisher, Skeptic Magazine

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a we... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Exhibit Hall Book Store

Book Signing

3:15pm PDT

FreedomFest Book Signings

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT

Exhibit Hall Book Store

Speakers

Steven Pinker

Public Intellectual / Harvard Professor / Author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters & Enlightenment Now

STEVEN PINKER asks the big questions about human progress and sets out, in public, to answer them. In Rationality, he explores why—when humanity is reaching new heights of scientific reasoning—there appears to be more fake news, conspiracy theorizing, and medical quackery than... Read More →

Michael Shellenberger

Founder, Public News

Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award winner, and the best-selling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (HarperCollins 2021) and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (HarperCollins 2020).Mic... Read More →

Robert Kiyosaki

Author, Rich Dad Poor Dad

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad—the #1 personal finance book of all time—Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. He is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes the world needs more entrepreneurs who will create jobs.Robert has been heralded as a visionary who has... Read More →

Adam Coleman

Founder, Wrong Speak Publishing

Adam B. Coleman is the Author of “Black Victim To Black Victor“, Op-Ed Writer, Public Speaker, and the Founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Adam is a columnist for Human Events, a frequent contributor for The New York Post, and has articles published in Newsweek, The Feder... Read More →

Twila Brase

Co-Founder/President, Citizens' Council for Health Freedom; RN, PHN

Twila Brase RN, PHN is president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), a national organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota with a mission to protect patient and doctor freedom.. She is also a policy advisor for health care to The Heartland Institute.In August 2009, Modern Healthcare named her #75 on their “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare... Read More →

Alexandra Hudson

Author, The Soul of Civility

ALEXANDRA O. HUDSON is passionate about the way that ideas and storytelling change people’s lives. She is an author, popular speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth comprised of 50,000 intellectually... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
Exhibit Hall Book Store

Book Signing

10:00am PDT

FreedomFest Book Signings

Friday July 12, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

Exhibit Hall Book Store

Speakers

Marian Tupy

Founder, HumanProgress.org

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 →

Gale Pooley

History Professor, Utah Tech University

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 →

John Fund

National Affairs Columnist, National Review

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 →

Rainer Zitelmann

Historian, Sociologist, Bestselling Author

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 →

Monica Harris

Executive Director, Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

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 →

Steve Forbes

Chairman/Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media

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 →

Friday July 12, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Exhibit Hall Book Store

Book Signing

3:15pm PDT

FreedomFest Book Signings

Friday July 12, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT

Exhibit Hall Book Store

Speakers

José Luis Cordeiro

Director, Liberty International

José Luis Cordeiro is the leading futurist from Venezuela, Founder of the World Future Society Venezuela, President of the Venezuela Node of The Millennium Project, and former Director of the Venezuela Chapter of the Club of Rome. He graduated in science at Universidad Simón Bolívar... Read More →

Paul Dykewicz

Author

Paul Dykewicz, (DIE ka wits), is the author of “Holy Smokes! Golden Guidance from Notre Dame’sChampionship Chaplain,” www.holysmokesbook.com, a book that features the life, wisdom and humor ofthe university’s late sports chaplain who also headed discipline during the Vietnam... Read More →

George Gilder

Editor, The Gilder Report

George is the most knowledgeable man in America when it comes to the future of technology and its impact on our lives.He accurately tipped off President Ronald Reagan to the rise of the microchip, saying that it would change the world. Gilder then went on to become Reagan’s most... Read More →

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Host, The Tom Woods Show

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show.Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, C-SPAN, and Bloomberg Television, among other outlets, and has been a guest on hundreds... Read More →

Grover Norquist

President, Americans for Tax Reform

Grover Norquist (Twitter: @GroverNorquist) is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards... Read More →

Sam Sorbo

Education Freedom Advocate

As an education freedom advocate, Sam’s mission is to help parents and their children emancipate from our modern school system. A successful Hollywood film actress, writer, and producer, Sam stepped back from her own career to immerse herself in the home education of her three young... Read More →

Friday July 12, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT
Exhibit Hall Book Store

Book Signing