FreedomFest is an intense three and a half days, and it’s different from any conference you have ever attended. This year’s theme is fitting; Healthy, Wealth & Wise. Where else can you attend yoga in the morning, listen to world-renowned speakers on finance or geo-politics after breakfast, choose from among a dozen breakout sessions with…
Jo Ann Skousen
On the Road Again–You Come Too!
I love road trips. Over the past 15 years I’ve crossed the country from coast to coast and north to south at least two dozen times. It started in 2007 when my husband wanted to send his handcrafted “Totem Pole of Economics” to FreedomFest for a talk he was giving on Keynes, Smith and Marx.…
We Will Not Be Silenced
Many years ago I went with a large group of protesters to the Virginia State Capitol to tell our legislators how we felt about a particular issue. We did not have appointments, but we did not need them. The Capitol was a public building, and we arrived during business hours. We simply walked in. Some…
FreedomFest Moves to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
Over the years, we’ve made some pretty big announcements at FreedomFest. 2011: The Anthem Libertarian Film Festival made its debut. 2013: John Stossel began filming his show live from our stage. 2015: Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agreed to debate Wall Street Journal columnist Steve Moore. 2015: We made room for…
#Yes, America’s President — Like it or Not
When I was in graduate school in 1993, a colleague confessed gleefully during a class discussion, “When I heard that Ronald Reagan had been shot, I cheered.” Others in class nodded and chuckled in agreement, certain that we all shared the same political views. We were all in academia, right? I felt shocked and offended…
Anthem Film Festival Partners with Salem Media for a Virtual Series
Humans are resilient, adaptive and resourceful. When an obstacle is placed in our way, we remove it or circumvent it. When we lose something, we devise a substitute. When a door closes, we begin looking for a new opening. We’ve seen examples of this innovation and resilience throughout the pandemic lockdown. Manufacturers adapted their factories…
Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff
Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff. It’s really that simple. It’s what your mom taught you. And it’s the philosophy of liberty in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats and Nanny State Karens, as long as they…
Should FreedomFest Go Virtual?
As we have gone through the painful process of cancelling FreedomFest this year, many of our followers have suggested that we go virtual instead, as some other conferences have done. We truly appreciate how much all of you wanted to experience FreedomFest this year. But that’s the point: FreedomFest is an experience. it isn’t just…
At Risk: The Twin Towers of Freedom
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. “ – Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan once warned, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one…
And the People Woke Up
If you have any presence on social media at all, you have surely seen Kitty O’Meara’s sentimental prose poem “And the People Stayed Home,” which has circled the globe faster than a corona virus in the past couple of weeks. O’Meara says that she had been feeling sad and anxious about the pandemic and the…