By Luke Strickland (Tallahassee, FL) Ever since I can remember I’ve known of family stories that happened in old Florida. For generations my family has been in the Sunshine State and each generation seems to have picked up a tale or two. My great-great-great-grandfather, B.E. Mclin, was the second Commissioner of Agriculture for the […]
2018 Reading List with 30-book goal!
In late October, I was with my friend Grant Starrett at National Review Institute’s Buckley Prize Dinner in New York City. We were catching up on life when he told me that at that the start of 2017 he had made a resolution to read 50 books this year. “50 books?,” I said. He then […]
2017 Year in Review: Filled Every Day with Adventure
2017 has been a year of new adventures. After nine years, I left The James Madison Institute in February to start a new job as Director of Philanthropy of National Review Institute. In late August, I had the opportunity to go on the National Review cruise, and just before that, travel through five countries (all […]
Joe Russo Building the Palm Beaches Into a Tech Hub
Palm Beach Tech is a multi-faceted nonprofit organization that is working to build the Palm Beaches into a tech hub. They do that through events and programs, most of which are hosted at the Palm Beach Tech SPACE, a 3,500-square foot open area with five offices and a conference room, located in downtown West Palm […]
Elizabeth Avenue Station An Entrepreneurial Space for Creatives
When Danni Mitchell was preparing for her wedding this year, she began looking for a space she could get creative in. She didn’t want to feel trapped by wedding spaces that were confined by what was already there. That might seem a bit out-of-the-box for most people who would like to avoid adding more work […]
K9s For Warriors Changing The Way We Take Care of Veterans With PTSD
Our nation’s veterans are made up of individuals of all walks of life, but they are a special group of people. They put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms. As we celebrate Veterans Day this month, Episode 33 of the Agents of Innovation podcast pays tribute to our veterans by featuring an […]
Nick Gill Keeps His Options Open and His Dreams Alive
Nick Gill is a man of many places but also many talents. He was born in Washington, DC, raised in Fairhope, Alabama, and is currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. After high school, he didn’t take the usual route to college. Instead, he pursued his talents as a musician and went to Nashville. He went down […]
Hytch a Ride with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cleveland
Mark Cleveland is what some might call a serial entrepreneur, but that isn’t entirely accurate. He’s actually a “parallel entrepreneur.” A serial entrepreneur goes from one thing to the next, but a parallel entrepreneur isn’t doing just one thing at a time. After interviewing Mark on the Agents of Innovation podcast, it’s easy to tell […]
National Review’s Transatlantic Cruise
After taking the train from London with my NRI colleagues Lindsay Craig (along with her husband and daughter) and David French, we arrived into Southampton, England on August 30 and checked into our hotel there, where most of the other attendees of the National Review (NR) cruise were staying. In the late afternoon, a welcome […]
Two Days in London
After spending twelve days traveling around Central Europe, I left Prague to head to London. I was expected to be there by Monday night in preparation for a dinner that National Review Institute was doing for some of our supporters and friends in London on Tuesday night. Given this opportunity, I took the first flight […]