Dr. Daniel Di Martino, Dr. Burt Folsom & Anthony Kim LIVE | Reagan Ranch High School Conference 2026

Dr. Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. His research focuses on immigration, especially selection, assimilation, and highly skilled immigration. Born and raised in Venezuela, Di Martino experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand. After leaving Venezuela for the U.S. in 2016, he dedicated himself to explaining how socialism destroyed his homeland, advocating for its freedom, and stopping this ideology from ever being implemented in America and elsewhere.
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Burt Folsom has been a college professor at many places, especially Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he still serves as distinguished fellow. He has written ten books. These books include The Myth of the Robber Barons, which is published by Young America’s Foundation and will soon be in its ninth edition. He has also written New Deal or Raw Deal? that describes President Franklin Roosevelt’s disastrous New Deal program, which attacked free enterprise and slowed down America’s recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930s. Burt Folsom received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh and he appears regularly on Fox News. He is the longest serving speaker for Young America’s Foundation.
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Anthony B. Kim is research manager and editor of the Index of Economic Freedom. Previously, Kim had served as deputy chief of staff to Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, founder of the Heritage Foundation. Focusing on policies related to economic freedom, entrepreneurship, and investment in various countries around the world, Kim researches international economic issues. The Index of Economic Freedom, a widely respected policy guide book, tracks the march of economic freedom around the world by measuring 12 freedoms–from property rights to entrepreneurship–in 186 countries.
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