The terrifying thing about COVID policies was that they were not imposed by governments on an unwilling public but were welcomed and even demanded by many people.
Matt Kibbe
Matt Kibbe is President at Free the People, an educational foundation using video storytelling to turn on the next generation to the values of personal liberty and peaceful cooperation. He is also co-founder and partner at Fight the Power Productions, a video and strategic communications company. Kibbe is the host of BlazeTV’s Kibbe on Liberty, a popular podcast that insists that you think for yourself.
He was senior advisor for a Rand Paul Presidential Super PAC in 2016, and later co-founded AlternativePAC to promote libertarian values.
In 2004 Kibbe founded FreedomWorks, a national grassroots advocacy organization, and served as President until his departure in 2015. Steve Forbes said: “Kibbe has been to FreedomWorks what Steve Jobs was to Apple.” Newsweek pronounced Kibbe “one of the masterminds” of tea party politics. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe “The second worst person in the world.”
Dubbed “the scribe” by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS.
Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater.
Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. He lives in Washington, DC with his awesome wife Terry, and their three objectivist cats, Roark, Ragnar and Rearden. Kibbe is also a fanatical DeadHead, drinker of craft beer and whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics.
Latest Posts
Generations of development economists, non-profit leaders, and charitable organizations have struggled to understand why Africa lags so stubbornly behind the Western world in terms of living standards.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Religious Freedom Is What Makes America Special | Guest: Logan Albright | Ep 250
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent the church from running the government and vice versa.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Conspiracy Theories That Are Actually True | Guest: Connor Boyack | Ep 249
The term “conspiracy theory” has long been used to dismiss ideas as the unhinged ravings of paranoid lunatics.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Rand Paul Exposes the Great COVID Cover-Up | Guest: Sen. Rand Paul | Ep 248
The government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was built on lies—from the origin of the virus to the effectiveness of facemasks.
The public response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing government lockdowns was a shocking wake-up call to many of us about the nature of our fellow human beings.
From the 24-hour news cycle to constant doom-scrolling on social media, the world is awash in negative thinking and the mentality that the next crisis is right around the corner.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
You Can Pry My Beer from My Cold, Dead Hands | Guest: David Clement | Ep 245
Why is the Biden administration now recommending that Americans drink no more than two beers a week? Blame Canada!
Was FDR really a hero of the people, or did his policies irrevocably damage the civil liberties and individual freedoms of American citizens?
The wildfires that have torn apart the island of Maui have been called a freak accident and blamed on global warming, but in fact the conditions for this disaster were laid long ago through a series of bad decisions from government regulators.