Biographical Information on the Speakers for
The Philadelphia Society Regional Meeting
Milwaukee, October 7-8, 2005 

Victoria Hughes:
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/default.htm
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/aboutUs/staffadvisory/staff.htm#Victoria 

David Boaz:
Brief biography at http://www.cato.org/people/boaz.html
"Defining an Ownership Society" piece:
http://www.cato.org/special/ownership_society/boaz.html           

Joshua Hochschild:
Prize Winning Essay at the Acton Institute in 1998:
“The Moral Foundation of Political Economy”
http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/ethics_econ/first.html
Review of two books by Virginia Postrel in The University Bookman:
http://kirkcenter.org/bookman/43-1-hochschild.html  

Mark Kalthoff:
Brief biography at http://www.hillsdale.edu/cte/kalthoff.htm 

Ronald J. Pestritto:
Brief biography with links to many publications: http://www.claremont.org/about/staff/pestritto.html
Link to Amazon’s page on his newest book: Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0742515176/qid=1123871308/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/103-0247593-5991020?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Allan

Allan Carlson:
For a good biography cf: http://www.profam.org/THC/Speakers/xthc_spk_br_acc.htm

Gene Smiley:
His most recent book is Rethinking the Great Depression (2002).
For a brief biography: http://www.busadm.mu.edu/Economics/econ-faculty-smiley.htm
Also cf. http://www.eh.net/pipermail/eh.teach/1994-September/001147.html
Gene reviews Randall E., Parker’s, Reflections on the Great Depression. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002. 
http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0613.shtml

Joseph A. Morris:   
Brief biography: http://www.heartland.org/Emerging2005/bioMorris.cfm
Or cf. this link.

Paul Ryan:
Link to his Congressional site: http://www.house.gov/ryan/

Bridgett Wagner:  
Brief biography: http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/BridgettWagner.cfm

John Goodman:
Brief biography: http://www.ncpa.org/abo/staff/jcgoodman.html
His recent article on Social Security at 70:
http://www.teamncpa.org/main/commentary.php?ItemsID=22

Eugene Hickok:
Brief biography: http://www.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/hickok.html 

Jason Turner:
For brief biography: http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/JasonTurner.cfm
For an excellent 9 minute video of Jason discussing his experience in Wisconsin:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/realvideo.htm  The Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation Forum sponsored a seminar September 21, 2004, New York City on the topic, “Whither Welfare Reform? Lessons from the Wisconsin Experience” You can also find videos of speakers, Jason DeParle, Author, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004); Lawrence Mead, Author, Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin (Princeton University Press, 2004)  

His reflections on welfare reform in Wisconsin: “Welfare Reform: Can the States Fly Solo?”
Policy Review, November-December 1996, Number 80:
http://www.policyreview.org/nov96/backup/symp.html                                                      

William Schambra:
For a brief biography and a generous list of articles and speeches:
http://pcr.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=SchambraWill                                                

Tom Bray:
For a succinct article by Tom Bray which covers his new book, Soaring High:
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2004/january/Soaring%20High%20-%20Cover.htm 

Tracy Mehan discusses in interesting length Bray’s book in National Review Online, August 19, 2005, 8:21 a.m. “Green in America: A constructive, conservative approach.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/mehan200508190821.asp