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Kevin Hassett

Dr. Kevin Hassett served as the 29th Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 through 2019. He was thereafter called back to the White House in 2020 to serve as a Senior Advisor to President Trump, where he coordinated the economic response to the pandemic. Dr. Hassett has been involved in national […]

Jeanne Ives 

Jeanne Ives served three terms as an Illinois State Representative. First elected in 2012, Representative Ives demonstrated not only a willingness to lead on difficult issues and question powerful House leaders, but also an insightful understanding of policy.  In keeping with her fiscally conservative principles, she refused both a taxpayer funded pension and healthcare. Her […]

Jeanne Ives

 Jeanne Ives served three terms as an Illinois State Representative. First elected in 2012, Representative Ives demonstrated not only a willingness to lead on difficult issues and question powerful House leaders, but also an insightful understanding of policy.  In keeping with her fiscally conservative principles, she refused both a taxpayer funded pension and healthcare. Her […]

Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fish Out of Water, Martin Luther, If You Can Keep It, Bonhoeffer, Amazing Grace, and Miracles. His newest book is Is Atheism Dead? (EricMetaxas.com/Atheism). He has written more than thirty children’s books, and his books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and […]

The Honorable Mike Gallagher

Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. Mike was born and raised in Green Bay, where he now lives with his wife Anne and daughters, Grace and Rose. Mike served for seven years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, including two deployments to […]

Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron is known by millions as “Mike Seaver” from the 1980s hit sit-com, “Growing Pains.” Since then, he’s invested his time and energy into faith and family-focused films, television shows and live events, including “Fireproof” -the marriage-centered film that became the #1 inspirational movie of the year, inspiring the best-selling book “The Love Dare”, […]

Ambassador Joseph James Cella

Ambassador Joseph James Cella served as the Ambassador of the United States of America to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu from October 17, 2019 to January 20, 2021. Cella and his family were the largest family to serve in an ambassadorial posting overseas in the history of the State Department. He has over twenty-five […]

Noelle Mering

Noelle Mering is a Fellow at Washington DC based think tank the Ethics and Public Policy Center where she co-directs the Theology of Home Project. She is an editor for Theology of Home, co-author of the Theology of Home book series, and the author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of […]

Dr. Carl R. Trueman

  Born and raised in England, Carl Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (M.A.) and Aberdeen (Ph.D), and has taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001 to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA). In 2017-18 he was the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in […]

Dr. William Kline

William Kline is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois, Springfield. He is the director of the Business and Society project and a senior fellow at the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. He has taught Business Ethics for over 20 years. He earned his PhD in […]

Dr. Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson is a Clinical Professor and holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom; he also is director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business. He earned his PhD and MS in Economics from Florida State University and his BS in Economics from […]

Habi Zhang

Habi is a doctoral student in political science. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Pepperdine School of Public Policy (‘2017). She writes political commentary and essays in her spare time. Her work appears in Law & Liberty, The Imaginative Conservative, The American Mind, The American Conservative, The Daily Wire, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

Kimberley Strassel

Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Washington, D.C. Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and […]

Adam Andrzejewski

Adam Andrzejewski (say: Angie-eff-ski) is the founder & CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, and the author of Operation Drain The Swamp, released by Encounter Books. Prior to starting OpenTheBooks, Andrzejewski, an entrepreneur, co-founded HomePages Directories, a $20 million publishing company (1997-2007). Since 2014, Andrzejewski has been a senior policy contributor at Forbes publishing 200 investigations for 16 […]

Congressman Jody Hice

Congressman Jody Hice was born in Atlanta and raised in Tucker, Georgia. Representative Hice graduated from Asbury University, earned his Master’s degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as a Doctor of Ministry from Luther Rice College and Seminary. Congressman Hice served as pastor in three Georgia counties for almost 25 years, and went on to […]

Pete Peterson

Pete Peterson is a leading national speaker and writer on issues related to civic participation, and the use of technology to make government more responsive and transparent. He was the first executive director of the bi-partisan organization, Common Sense California, which in 2010 joined with the Davenport Institute at the School of Public Policy to […]

Saren Ath

Saren Ath endured the atrocities of the communist Khmer Rouge Regime from 1975-1979 losing her father and her two younger sisters to the infamous Killing Fields. From 1979-1981, she lived in a refugee camp in Thailand until she came to the United States in September of 1981. As a 17 year old immigrant, Saren came […]

Marina Davidovich

Marina and her husband, Felix, young daughter Mariana, and mother-in-law Ida, left the USSR in the summer of 1975. She had to leave her family and friends behind not knowing if she would ever see them again. It was truly a “leap of faith.” After spending about two weeks in Vienna, Austria, and then six […]

Kevin Sorbo

Sorbo received international stardom when he booked the lead role in “Hercules, the Legendary Journeys”. Following that success, Sorbo had the lead role as “Captain Dylan Hunt” in “Gene Roddenberry’s, Andromeda”.   The independent film “What If” was nominated for Best Family Movie of the Year by the Movie Guide Awards.  Sorbo also received the […]

Michael J. Clark Ph. D.

Michael Clark received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor at Hillsdale College where his hard work and high teaching evaluations garnered him the Wallace and Marion Reemelin chair in free market economics. Previously, he taught as a visiting professor for the MBA program at the University […]

Phillip W. Magness

Phillip W. Magness is Senior Research Faculty and Interim Research and Education Director at the American Institute for Economic Research. He holds a PhD and MPP from George Mason University’s School of Public Policy, and a BA from the University of St. Thomas (Houston). Prior to joining AIER, Dr. Magness spent over a decade teaching […]

Ian Haworth

Ian is a conservative writer, speaker and podcast host.Originally from the United Kingdom, Ian moved to the United States after graduating from Oxford University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Computer Science. Before entering the world of political commentary, Ian worked in Silicon Valley as a Software Engineer. During this time, Ian spent almost […]

Jennifer Stefano

Jennifer Stefano is the Chief Strategist and Vice President at the Commonwealth Foundation. She oversees development, communications and long-term strategic planning. Prior to joining the Commonwealth Foundation, Jennifer served in numerous leadership roles at Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The Emmy-nominated former TV reporter and anchor spent most of her career in […]

Congressman Jason Chaffetz

Congressman Jason Chaffetz is a Fox News Contributor, two-time New York Times Bestselling author, and former Chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was the Campaign Manager and Chief of Staff to Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and spent 16 years in the local business community. Football brought Chaffetz to […]

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