January 11, 2025

Loren Spivack

Loren Spivack “The Free Market Warrior” was born and raised in Massachusetts and spent most of his adult life in New York City. Before becoming active in politics, Spivack worked for several non-profits and as a management consultant for both profit and non-profit companies. Spivack founded “Free Market Warrior” in 2009 in an effort to make a positive difference in American politics and economics. 

His “Free Market Warrior” store was expelled from Concord Mills Mall in North Carolina in July of 2009 for selling material critical of the Obama Administration. (Mall owners, Simon Property Group, are major Democratic donors.) Since then Loren has devoted his time to teaching conservative groups about free market economics. He conducts "Economic Literacy" seminars across the United States. So far, Spivack has delivered his famous seminar on “Economic Literacy” to over 200 groups in 20 states. Spivack is also the author of “The New Democrat” a parody history of the Obama administration, based on a famous children's book. With pitch-perfect rhyme and clever illustrations, "The New Democrat” transforms the political personalities of our times into cartoon characters in a conservative morality play. Spivack’s second book “The Gorax” is an anti-environmentalism/pro capitalism parody starring Al Gore and presenting his movement as a threat to American freedom and standard of living. Once again Spivack is both funny and poignant as he makes the case that capitalism (represented by the “Onepercentler”) is the real victim of environmental extremists who destroy prosperity without achieving even their own goals. Along the way, Spivack takes well aimed shots at everything from “The Fed” to the teachers unions. “The Gorax” came out on July 1, 2013.

February 8, 2025

Dr. Craig Smith

Dr. Craig Smith is the author of twenty-four books and 70 scholarly articles and book chapters, many of them on First Amendment issues.  Craig was named the National Speakers' Association Outstanding Professor of the Year in 1998. In 2000, he was selected as the Outstanding Professor on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. In 2006, he won the campus’ Hardeman Award for Academic Leadership. In 2010 he received the Douglas Ehninger Award from the National Communication Association for his contributions to rhetorical theory. The same association has given him the Robert O’Neill Award three times for his research on Freedom of Expression and the Gronbeck Award for contributions to political communication research. He has testified before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and state and local governments. He has served as a consultant to CBS News for convention, election night, and inaugural coverage. He has served on the Commission for Teacher Credentialing, as the faculty trustee on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system, and on the Cultural Heritage Commission of Long Beach.

Craig received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, his master’s degree from the City University of New York, and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Earlier in his career he taught at San Diego State University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he founded the Communication Department. He also served as a speechwriter from Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, Governor Pete Wilson and Chrysler CEO, Lee Iacocca.  He is the Director Emeritus of the Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught for 27 years. Currently he is the co-host of the podcast History.Rated R which has over 100 episodes on file.